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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 312

May 27, 200413 counties in Illinois; 24 counties in Indiana; Bullitt County, Jefferson County, Meade County, Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT for 13 counties in Illinois; 24 counties in Indiana; Bullitt County, Jefferson County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 40 counties

Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Bullitt County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY

Warnings issued inside it

35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Effingham, Jasper	6 hr
May 27, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	58 min
May 27, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Sullivan	41 min
May 27, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox	37 min
May 27, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	24 min
May 27, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	57 min
May 27, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland, Shelby	6 hr
May 27, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike	33 min
May 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene	45 min
May 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	57 min
May 27, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	53 min
May 27, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene	38 min
May 27, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	59 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	53 min
May 27, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence	59 min
May 27, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	25 min
May 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	58 min
May 27, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	27 min
May 27, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	46 min
May 27, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe	29 min
May 27, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	40 min
May 27, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox	34 min
May 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe and 1 more	3 hr
May 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Washington	65 min
May 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark	50 min
May 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Martin	25 min
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	42 min
May 27, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	46 min
May 27, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	43 min
May 27, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Orange, Washington	3 hr
May 27, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	52 min
May 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	43 min
May 27, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	57 min
May 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd	53 min
May 27, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	63 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 577 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 13 more	63 min
May 26, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 16 more	5 hr
May 26, 9:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 25 more	54 min
May 26, 11:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more	2 hr
May 27, 1:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 9 more	3 hr
May 27, 11:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 25 more	2 hr
May 27, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Pike and 3 more	6 hr
May 27, 1:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Clark, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 12 more	113 min
May 27, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 22 more	7 hr
May 27, 1:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Pike and 1 more	113 min
May 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 12 more	7 hr
May 27, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 13 more	2 hr
May 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Effingham and 22 more	113 min
May 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 11 more	89 min
May 27, 6:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Macon, Morgan and 4 more	90 min
May 27, 6:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ohio, Switzerland	25 min
May 27, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland	5 hr
May 27, 6:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Carroll, Clark, Fayette and 16 more	53 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.