Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 112
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2007, 2:33 PM EDT for 59 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky; 37 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2007, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2007, 9:39 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 110 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Meade County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Owen | 19 min |
| Apr 3, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Martin | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Monroe | 115 min |
| Apr 3, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 16 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Trimble | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 40 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Newton, Vermillion, Warren | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Fountain and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 12:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 43 more | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 3:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn and 33 more | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Bullitt, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd and 60 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Cumberland, Edmonson and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 16 more | 60 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.