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Tornado Watch 339
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 10, 2006, 7:01 PM EDT for 40 counties in Indiana; 30 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2006, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2006, 11:13 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 70 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike | 27 min |
| May 10, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson | 47 min |
| May 10, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 51 min |
| May 10, 8:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Martin | 46 min |
| May 10, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 118 min |
| May 10, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 28 min |
| May 10, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange | 60 min |
| May 10, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Martin | 33 min |
| May 10, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 33 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, DeKalb, Elkhart and 23 more | 2 hr |
| May 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 2 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.