Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 574
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2004, 1:45 AM EST for 37 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan; 15 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2004, 1:45 AM EST (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen 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, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 11:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Newton, Parke, Vermillion, Warren | 91 min |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daviess, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Pike, Posey and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jul 6, 11:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 12:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Orange and 2 more | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 9 more | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 2:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 41 more | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 72 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Branch, Calhoun and 37 more | 86 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Bay, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 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.