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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 519

June 24, 200436 counties in Indiana; 41 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2004, 3:05 PM EST for 36 counties in Indiana; 41 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2004, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2004, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 77 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Richland County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	39 min
Jun 24, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	66 min
Jun 24, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	45 min
Jun 24, 4:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	54 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	38 min
Jun 24, 4:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	67 min
Jun 24, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	63 min
Jun 24, 4:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	66 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	56 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan	41 min
Jun 24, 5:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	54 min
Jun 24, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	53 min
Jun 24, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	57 min
Jun 24, 5:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	66 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	61 min
Jun 24, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	43 min
Jun 24, 5:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	57 min
Jun 24, 5:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	67 min
Jun 24, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jun 24, 5:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	57 min
Jun 24, 5:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	67 min
Jun 24, 5:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	65 min
Jun 24, 6:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	36 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	62 min
Jun 24, 6:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	66 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	50 min
Jun 24, 6:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	28 min
Jun 24, 6:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	63 min
Jun 24, 7:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana	66 min
Jun 24, 7:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	46 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:11 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, Delaware, Grant and 15 more	94 min
Jun 24, 6:44 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Belmont, Jefferson	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.