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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 284

May 25, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2004, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 140 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Ford County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White 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, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson 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, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke 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, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 150 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough and 3 more90 min
May 24, 10:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 36 more64 min
May 24, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 27 more5 hr
May 24, 11:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 24 more90 min
May 25, 9:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Lawrence, Pope and 4 more86 min
May 25, 1:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 12 more6 hr
May 25, 2:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more96 min
May 25, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin and 22 more6 hr
May 25, 3:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 12 more89 min
May 25, 5:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Bond, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards and 25 more87 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Perry, Randolph and 2 more56 min
May 25, 4:23 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartholomew, Blackford, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur and 28 more97 min
May 25, 4:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur and 16 more58 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Greene, Harrison and 14 more6 hr
May 25, 11:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 42 more96 min
May 25, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAthens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 22 more7 hr
May 25, 2:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAthens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more63 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.