Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 28, 2003, 1:20 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2003, 1:20 PM CST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2003, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 95 counties
Hardin County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edgar, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Edwards, Gallatin and 13 more | 113 min |
| Mar 28, 3:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Wabash | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Wabash | 93 min |
| Mar 28, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Williams | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.