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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 522

June 13, 20085 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2008, 11:27 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2008, 11:27 AM CDT (16:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2008, 6:27 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 118 counties

Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson 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, Dubois County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Gibson 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, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall 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, Pike County, IN, Porter County, IN, Posey County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Perry County, MO

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 11:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes, Cumberland, Shelby63 min
Jun 13, 11:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion59 min
Jun 13, 11:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClinton, Washington44 min
Jun 13, 11:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPerry29 min
Jun 13, 12:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMarion3 hr
Jun 13, 12:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Henry48 min
Jun 13, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Vermillion, Warren39 min
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHFranklin, Jefferson, Perry24 min
Jun 13, 12:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXLawrence6 hr
Jun 13, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren46 min
Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningIWXWhite3 hr
Jun 13, 1:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDJohnson, Shelby4 hr
Jun 13, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion49 min
Jun 13, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne32 min
Jun 13, 1:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDMorgan61 min
Jun 13, 1:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLOTBenton4 hr
Jun 13, 2:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDMorgan, Owen3 hr
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois45 min
Jun 13, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHSpencer34 min
Jun 13, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Perry54 min
Jun 13, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Perry39 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2008-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2008-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 24 more6 hr
Jun 12, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams6 hr
Jun 12, 11:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 27 more90 min
Jun 13, 1:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Cook and 23 more54 min
Jun 13, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 38 more6 hr
Jun 13, 10:44 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 28 more2 hr
Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Massac, Pulaski62 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more6 hr
Jun 13, 5:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and 2 more62 min
Jun 13, 11:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison, Jefferson and 5 more84 min
Jun 13, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Dearborn, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin and 11 more7 hr
Jun 13, 2:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark and 52 more117 min
Jun 13, 4:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark, Elliott and 18 more93 min
Jun 12, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntrim, Benzie, Cheboygan, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin and 13 more24 min
Jun 12, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAntrim, Benzie, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Grand Traverse and 17 more4 hr
Jun 12, 10:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClare, Crawford, Gladwin, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Lake and 12 more54 min
Jun 13, 12:04 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Benzie, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Grand Traverse and 16 more86 min
Jun 13, 12:57 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Clare, Clinton and 24 more5 hr
Jun 13, 1:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarry, Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee and 15 more54 min
Jun 13, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Bay, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee and 20 more4 hr
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 29 more87 min
Jun 12, 11:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 25 more113 min
Jun 13, 3:06 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Polk, St. Clair and 1 more84 min
Jun 13, 3:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 15 more6 hr
Jun 13, 2:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clay, Clinton and 11 more113 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOzark, Taney93 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.