Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 656
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 21, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2005, 9:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Coles County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 59 min |
| Jul 21, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 66 min |
| Jul 21, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Livingston | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Tipton | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clay, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam and 2 more | 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island | 92 min |
| Jul 21, 6:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, DeKalb and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 21, 10:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Kankakee, Lake, Will | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford and 5 more | 87 min |
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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.