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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 667

July 22, 20045 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 125 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson 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, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay 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, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Porter County, IN, Posey County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Meade County, KY, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Defiance County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPike39 min
Jul 22, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVigo52 min
Jul 22, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCumberland44 min
Jul 22, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWarrick42 min
Jul 22, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSullivan41 min
Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXClark, Cumberland6 hr
Jul 22, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham, Jasper63 min
Jul 22, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois55 min
Jul 22, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCrawford53 min
Jul 22, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin49 min
Jul 22, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSpencer52 min
Jul 22, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHGallatin3 hr
Jul 22, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXCrawford, Jasper5 hr
Jul 22, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLawrence, Richland54 min
Jul 22, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Orange53 min
Jul 22, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSaline40 min
Jul 22, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHHenderson49 min
Jul 22, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Washington43 min
Jul 22, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLawrence, Monroe26 min
Jul 22, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Brown, Jackson32 min
Jul 22, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHDaviess47 min
Jul 22, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGallatin43 min
Jul 22, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJefferson59 min
Jul 22, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne52 min
Jul 22, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMeade52 min
Jul 22, 5:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHJefferson, Wayne3 hr
Jul 22, 6:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHWhite4 hr
Jul 22, 7:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDRush57 min
Jul 22, 7:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningIWXVan Wert3 hr

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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1619 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1619 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 11:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, DeWitt, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee and 10 more2 hr
Jul 22, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBureau, Champaign, Coles, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 24 more6 hr
Jul 22, 1:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 10 more83 min
Jul 22, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJersey, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair97 min
Jul 22, 6:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 9 more93 min
Jul 21, 7:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 41 more56 min
Jul 21, 9:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clay, Dearborn and 21 more59 min
Jul 22, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCSpencer5 hr
Jul 22, 6:49 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBreathitt, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more116 min

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.