Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 25
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 29, 2008, 5:40 PM EST for 52 counties in Indiana; 24 counties in Kentucky; 16 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2008, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2008, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 92 counties
Bartholomew 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, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson 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, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke 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, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Benton County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Jan 29, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 41 min |
| Jan 29, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Owen, Parke, Putnam | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 6:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen | 48 min |
| Jan 29, 6:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 6:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Putnam | 42 min |
| Jan 29, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clinton, Decatur and 19 more | 47 min |
| Jan 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 29 min |
| Jan 29, 7:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 34 min |
| Jan 29, 7:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 7:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 7:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 2 more | 41 min |
| Jan 29, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 30 min |
| Jan 29, 7:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry and 7 more | 44 min |
| Jan 29, 7:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 7:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 50 min |
| Jan 29, 7:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 34 min |
| Jan 29, 7:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 26 min |
| Jan 29, 7:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 31 min |
| Jan 29, 8:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart and 2 more | 44 min |
| Jan 29, 8:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Nelson | 43 min |
| Jan 29, 8:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Mercer, Nelson, Shelby and 3 more | 25 min |
| Jan 29, 8:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 42 min |
| Jan 29, 8:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Green, Larue, Marion, Mercer and 3 more | 52 min |
| Jan 29, 8:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 61 min |
| Jan 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Mercer, Nelson, Scott and 4 more | 45 min |
| Jan 29, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith | 38 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 11:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more | 54 min |
| Jan 29, 11:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 12:32 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:24 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 11 more | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 4:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards and 24 more | 64 min |
| Jan 29, 6:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 113 min |
| Jan 29, 6:38 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 6 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2008
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.