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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 32
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 4, 2008, 7:14 PM CST for 39 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Indiana; 47 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2008, 7:14 PM CST (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 91 counties
Bond County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Greene County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 24 min |
| Feb 4, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike | 52 min |
| Feb 4, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory, St. Clair | 38 min |
| Feb 4, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Pike | 45 min |
| Feb 4, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Hickory | 28 min |
| Feb 4, 9:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 33 min |
| Feb 4, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Feb 4, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren | 48 min |
| Feb 4, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Osage | 26 min |
| Feb 4, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren | 47 min |
| Feb 4, 10:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 48 min |
| Feb 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 20 min |
| Feb 4, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 38 min |
| Feb 4, 11:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 18 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 3 hr |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 9:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Fulton, Greene, Randolph, Sharp | 84 min |
| Feb 5, 6:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 32 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 5 more | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 10:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 7 more | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 53 more | 89 min |
| Feb 5, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 7 more | 94 min |
| Feb 5, 12:39 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 33 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 9 more | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 3:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 19 more | 84 min |
| Feb 5, 5:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 42 more | 96 min |
| Feb 4, 6:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton and 13 more | 85 min |
| Feb 4, 9:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford and 13 more | 91 min |
| Feb 5, 6:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Massac | 2 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 17 more | 119 min |
| Feb 4, 7:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 23 more | 117 min |
| Feb 4, 7:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 4, 7:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 5, 7:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 8 more | 5 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.