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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 688
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 26, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT for 22 counties in Illinois; 32 counties in Indiana; Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2005, 9:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan, Vigo | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Lawrence, Richland | 48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 26, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 13 more | 66 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 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.