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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 565

June 30, 200547 counties in Indiana; 21 counties in Michigan; 4 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2005, 3:40 PM EST for 47 counties in Indiana; 21 counties in Michigan; 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2005, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2005, 10:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay 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, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Tuscola County, MI, Defiance County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 4:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHoward41 min
Jun 30, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBranch, Saint Joseph66 min
Jun 30, 5:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash58 min
Jun 30, 5:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHoward24 min
Jun 30, 5:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant53 min
Jun 30, 5:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware, Randolph49 min
Jun 30, 5:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBranch, Hillsdale64 min
Jun 30, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware, Henry, Madison37 min
Jun 30, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Wells72 min
Jun 30, 6:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXJay61 min
Jun 30, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLenawee87 min
Jun 30, 6:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRandolph47 min
Jun 30, 6:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Jay54 min
Jun 30, 6:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance53 min
Jun 30, 6:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry45 min
Jun 30, 6:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Paulding65 min
Jun 30, 7:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXJay29 min
Jun 30, 7:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRJackson41 min
Jun 30, 7:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance26 min
Jun 30, 9:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Johnson, Shelby45 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1111 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
1111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 7:27 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and 2 more2 hr
Jun 30, 8:40 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, DeKalb, Huntington, Steuben5 hr
Jun 30, 2:09 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 76 more96 min
Jun 30, 2:43 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPosey62 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Clay, Clinton and 30 more89 min
Jun 30, 10:33 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw and 1 more117 min
Jun 30, 6:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLenawee, Monroe7 hr
Jun 30, 11:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 34 more5 hr
Jun 30, 1:27 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 27 more2 hr
Jun 30, 2:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs and 4 more8 hr
Jun 30, 3:47 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Scioto88 min
Jun 30, 6:05 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHamilton85 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005

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.