Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 580
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 116 counties
Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marion County, IL, Marshall County, IL, McLean County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Will County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Carroll County, KY, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Edgar | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Kendall, Will | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 40 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 2 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 8 more | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 11:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois and 13 more | 91 min |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 26 more | 91 min |
| Jul 6, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 28 more | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 11:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland and 29 more | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Johnson, Pulaski, Union | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Orange and 2 more | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.