Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 705
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2003, 5:55 PM EST for 32 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2003, 5:55 PM EST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Parke | 3 min |
| Jul 9, 6:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Tippecanoe, Vermillion and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 8:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Daviess and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 23 more | 114 min |
| Jul 9, 9:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 31 more | 96 min |
| Jul 9, 11:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 34 more | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:12 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 47 more | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren | 86 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Vermillion | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings and 7 more | 88 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.