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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 718
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 13, 2005, 3:05 PM EST for 22 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan; 29 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2005, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2005, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton 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, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina 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, Wayne County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wells | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 3:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 57 min |
| Aug 13, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 3:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 11 min |
| Aug 13, 4:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 54 min |
| Aug 13, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Van Wert | 53 min |
| Aug 13, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 20 min |
| Aug 13, 5:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 5:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 44 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 19 more | 119 min |
| Aug 13, 6:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox and 8 more | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 6:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Carroll, Crawford, Defiance and 25 more | 87 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.