Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 468
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 12, 2005, 4:15 PM EST for 31 counties in Indiana; 15 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2005, 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2005, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jennings | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 5:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Jackson | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 6:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 6:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 6:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ripley | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 6:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 7:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 7:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 7:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 8:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Madison | 51 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 122114
SEL8
SPC WW 122114
INZ000-KYZ000-130200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 468
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
415 PM EST SUN JUN 12 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY
EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 415 PM UNTIL 900
PM EST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES
EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY.
FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 464...WW 465...WW 466...WW
467...
DISCUSSION...THREAT FOR LOW-TOPPED SUPERCELLS WILL EXIST DOWNSTREAM
FROM REMNANT CIRCULATION OF T.S. ARLENE...WHERE DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE
LOW 70S AND SRH IS AOA 200 M2/S2 FOR NWD-MOVING STORMS.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 400.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 20030.
...CORFIDI
401,0851 380,0843 373,0861 393,0870SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:25 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Jennings and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Hancock and 12 more | 92 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.