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Tornado Watch 187

April 14, 200636 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2006, 7:09 PM EDT for 36 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2006, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2006, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Henry	47 min
Apr 14, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Shelby	41 min
Apr 14, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	40 min
Apr 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	51 min
Apr 14, 7:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren	43 min
Apr 14, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Rush	52 min
Apr 14, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	63 min
Apr 14, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	55 min
Apr 14, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	14 min
Apr 14, 8:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery	63 min
Apr 14, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	47 min
Apr 14, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	65 min
Apr 14, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	39 min
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	44 min
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	44 min
Apr 14, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Shelby	42 min
Apr 14, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion, Shelby	38 min
Apr 14, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard	38 min
Apr 14, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	41 min
Apr 14, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush	52 min
Apr 14, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush	51 min
Apr 14, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	31 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1011 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	7 hr
Apr 13, 11:31 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more	59 min
Apr 14, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 49 more	5 hr
Apr 14, 2:58 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Jackson and 11 more	4 hr
Apr 14, 4:14 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more	91 min
Apr 14, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Clay, Fountain, Greene, Jasper, Montgomery and 9 more	6 hr
Apr 14, 11:05 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 47 more	85 min
Apr 14, 2:46 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 32 more	89 min
Apr 14, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 41 more	9 hr
Apr 14, 5:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Fountain, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Parke and 8 more	87 min
Apr 14, 5:54 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more	66 min
Apr 14, 6:19 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	4 hr
Apr 14, 7:57 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware and 25 more	93 min
Apr 14, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	6 hr

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.