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Tornado Watch 85
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 13, 2006, 3:52 AM CST for 25 counties in Illinois; 63 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2006, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2006, 10:35 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Macon County, IL, McLean County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 5:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 23 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 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 130955
SEL5
SPC WW 130955
ILZ000-INZ000-131700-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 85
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
350 AM CST MON MAR 13 2006
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY MORNING FROM 350 AM UNTIL 1100 AM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF DECATUR ILLINOIS
TO 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MUNCIE INDIANA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION
OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU5).
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...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 77. WATCH NUMBER 77 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 350
AM CST. CONTINUE...WW 78...WW 79...WW 80...WW 81...WW 82...WW
83...WW 84...
DISCUSSION...CONVECTIVE LINE WITH EMBEDDED BOWS WAS MOVING INTO EAST
CENTRAL IL AND WILL SHIFT EWD INTO NRN/CENTRAL IN DURING THE
MORNING. STRONG DEEP LAYER SHEAR REMAINS FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELLS.
ALTHOUGH THE MAIN THREAT APPEARS TO BE DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE
HAIL...50-60 KT LOW LEVEL JET AND 1 KM SHEAR NEAR 50 KT INDICATES
TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26030.
...IMYSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 17 more | 92 min |
| Mar 12, 7:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 24 more | 90 min |
| Mar 12, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 8:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 47 more | 90 min |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 58 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll | 83 min |
| Mar 13, 12:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 11 more | 85 min |
| Mar 13, 1:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 9 more | 86 min |
| Mar 13, 6:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 7 more | 97 min |
| Mar 12, 10:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 96 min |
| Mar 12, 11:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 28 more | 66 min |
| Mar 13, 9:44 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland | 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.