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Tornado Watch 343

May 30, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 30, 2004, 6:55 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2004, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 126 counties

Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew 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, Franklin 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, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange 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, Noble County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey 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, Spencer County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	59 min
May 30, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion	50 min
May 30, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	60 min
May 30, 7:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Jasper, Lawrence	6 hr
May 30, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	51 min
May 30, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	49 min
May 30, 7:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	5 hr
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	58 min
May 30, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	53 min
May 30, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	50 min
May 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	49 min
May 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	79 min
May 30, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Vigo	48 min
May 30, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	61 min
May 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	59 min
May 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	74 min
May 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Sullivan	39 min
May 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	51 min
May 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	51 min
May 30, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	50 min
May 30, 7:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	5 hr
May 30, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay	46 min
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock	45 min
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	45 min
May 30, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall	58 min
May 30, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	41 min
May 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall	53 min
May 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Posey	53 min
May 30, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, Lyon, Webster	65 min
May 30, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton	64 min
May 30, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Madison	47 min
May 30, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh	59 min
May 30, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	52 min
May 30, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Morgan	50 min
May 30, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene	33 min
May 30, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike, Warrick	59 min
May 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	4 hr
May 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean	39 min
May 30, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	51 min
May 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	49 min
May 30, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Miami	63 min
May 30, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	63 min
May 30, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	31 min
May 30, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	28 min
May 30, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	58 min
May 30, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg	53 min
May 30, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Wabash	80 min
May 30, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	49 min
May 30, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	34 min
May 30, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	39 min
May 30, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	39 min
May 30, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	35 min
May 30, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	55 min
May 30, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon	32 min
May 30, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	45 min
May 30, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Blackford, Jay	40 min
May 30, 9:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	5 hr
May 30, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	36 min
May 30, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	49 min
May 30, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	33 min
May 30, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	29 min
May 30, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	59 min
May 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	48 min
May 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	3 hr
May 30, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	38 min
May 30, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	53 min
May 30, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	36 min
May 30, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	48 min
May 30, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	47 min
May 30, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	46 min
May 30, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jennings	45 min
May 30, 9:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	44 min
May 30, 9:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Darke, Mercer	41 min
May 30, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson	39 min
May 30, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	66 min
May 30, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	36 min
May 30, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	35 min
May 30, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	45 min
May 30, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	42 min
May 30, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Scott	38 min
May 30, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	50 min
May 30, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Ripley	43 min
May 30, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	39 min
May 30, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt	38 min
May 30, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	52 min
May 30, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	50 min
May 30, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	3 hr
May 30, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	49 min
May 30, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin, Hart, Larue	44 min
May 30, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	42 min
May 30, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Nelson	40 min
May 30, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall and 1 more	112 min
May 30, 10:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Spencer	3 hr
May 30, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	30 min
May 31, 12:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	95 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS20 KWNS 302354
SEL3  
SPC WW 302355
INZ000-KYZ000-MIZ000-OHZ000-310800-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 343
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
655 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 

       INDIANA
       WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY
       FAR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
       FAR NORTHEAST OHIO

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM 655 PM UNTIL
300 AM CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA TO 5
MILES SOUTH OF FORT CAMPBELL KENTUCKY.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 331. WATCH NUMBER 331 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 655
PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 332...WW 335...WW 336...WW 337...WW 338...WW
339...WW 340...WW 341...WW 342...

DISCUSSION...EXPECT A MIXED MODE OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE TO OVERSPREAD
THIS REGION TONIGHT.  PARAMETERS REMAIN VERY FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC
SUPERCELLS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME QUITE STRONG/PERSISTENT. 
EVOLUTION INTO ONE OR MORE WELL-DEFINED BOW ECHO SYSTEMS MAY ALSO
EVOLVE AND ENHANCE THE THREAT OF VERY DAMAGING WINDS.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035.


...EVANS

420,0835 363,0861 363,0884 420,0863

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles and 31 more	5 hr
May 30, 9:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Hancock and 6 more	3 hr
May 30, 10:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 19 more	2 hr
May 30, 10:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Hancock, McDonough, Pike	8 hr
May 30, 11:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Iroquois and 4 more	116 min
May 30, 11:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin and 7 more	7 hr
May 30, 12:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 4 more	2 hr
May 30, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 8 more	7 hr
May 30, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Fulton and 13 more	2 hr
May 30, 1:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 45 more	6 hr
May 30, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, DuPage and 29 more	119 min
May 30, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois and 12 more	6 hr
May 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jackson, Madison and 7 more	95 min
May 30, 5:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 39 more	54 min
May 30, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 41 more	6 hr
May 30, 3:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clark, Crawford and 47 more	115 min
May 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland, Union, Wayne	5 hr
May 30, 11:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 54 more	115 min
May 30, 1:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 67 more	7 hr
May 30, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calloway, Fulton	8 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.