Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 686
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 26, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2005, 5:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford 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, Grant County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 32 min |
| Jul 26, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 20 min |
| Jul 26, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 76 min |
| Jul 26, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 77 min |
| Jul 26, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Marshall | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 51 min |
| Jul 26, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Jul 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance | 49 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Lake, McHenry | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Iroquois and 14 more | 89 min |
| Jul 26, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 13 more | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 12 more | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Dearborn, Jay, Ohio, Randolph, Union and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 26, 1:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arenac, Bay, Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Oakland and 3 more | 89 min |
| Jul 26, 3:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arenac, Bay, Genesee, Lapeer, Macomb, Oakland and 2 more | 87 min |
| Jul 26, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Holmes and 9 more | 90 min |
| Jul 26, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Harrison and 13 more | 62 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.