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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 561
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 9:45 AM CDT for 14 counties in Illinois; 15 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2004, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Clay County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Orange County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Union County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 10:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Williamson | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Saline | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 18 min |
| Jul 5, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | White | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Warrick | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 1:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess | 87 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton, Coles, Cumberland and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Hardin, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer and 3 more | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jackson, Jersey, Madison and 5 more | 92 min |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 68 more | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harlan, Leslie | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.