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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 677

July 25, 200523 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan; 27 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 25, 2005, 9:25 AM EST for 23 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan; 27 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2005, 9:25 AM EST (14:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2005, 5:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 9:36 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Noble54 min
Jul 25, 10:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben53 min
Jul 25, 10:11 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Whitley64 min
Jul 25, 11:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Paulding35 min
Jul 25, 11:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHenry, Putnam45 min
Jul 25, 11:39 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wood53 min
Jul 25, 12:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin46 min
Jul 25, 12:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca, Wyandot50 min
Jul 25, 12:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford53 min
Jul 25, 12:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron56 min
Jul 25, 1:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca27 min
Jul 25, 1:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland67 min
Jul 25, 1:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMercer14 min
Jul 25, 1:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAuglaize60 min
Jul 25, 1:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin56 min
Jul 25, 1:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain60 min
Jul 25, 1:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron25 min
Jul 25, 1:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox38 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 8:53 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 23 more97 min
Jul 25, 10:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter7 hr
Jul 25, 11:57 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 12 more93 min
Jul 25, 1:31 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLake, Newton89 min
Jul 25, 1:53 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Cass, Huntington, Miami, Pulaski, Wabash and 1 more67 min
Jul 25, 3:50 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Cass, Grant, Huntington, Jasper and 7 more55 min
Jul 24, 10:28 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBelmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Geauga, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more92 min
Jul 24, 10:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshtabula, Trumbull4 hr
Jul 25, 1:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBelmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 10 more5 hr
Jul 25, 2:13 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAthens, Champaign, Clark, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 7 more92 min
Jul 25, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAthens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan and 3 more4 hr
Jul 25, 6:09 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLawrence66 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.