Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 460
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2004, 1:40 PM EST for 53 counties in Indiana; 26 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2004, 1:40 PM EST (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Wabash | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 3:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam, Van Wert | 78 min |
| Jun 13, 5:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 73 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 7:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 7:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 65 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, DeKalb, Delaware and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:03 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 47 more | 87 min |
| Jun 13, 4:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Daviess and 32 more | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 6 more | 5 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.