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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 621

June 27, 200812 counties in Illinois; 59 counties in Indiana; 13 counties in Michigan

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2008, 3:36 PM CDT for 12 counties in Illinois; 59 counties in Indiana; 13 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2008, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2008, 9:36 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties

Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Allen 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, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper 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, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby64 min
Jun 27, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham64 min
Jun 27, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay48 min
Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark, Cumberland45 min
Jun 27, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo39 min
Jun 27, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCrawford, Jasper50 min
Jun 27, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay, Lawrence, Richland54 min
Jun 27, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Sullivan, Vigo61 min
Jun 27, 5:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDFountain, Warren119 min
Jun 27, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Warren39 min
Jun 27, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark33 min
Jun 27, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningINDFountain, Tippecanoe, Warren52 min
Jun 27, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCrawford33 min
Jun 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan41 min
Jun 27, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDClay, Sullivan, Vigo115 min
Jun 27, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Owen47 min
Jun 27, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCarroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe29 min
Jun 27, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Sullivan46 min
Jun 27, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan46 min
Jun 27, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningINDMorgan22 min
Jun 27, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess, Knox51 min
Jun 27, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Brown, Johnson47 min
Jun 27, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLawrence, Martin63 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 2008-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 301 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 2008-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 11:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 59 more3 hr
Jun 27, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 48 more8 hr
Jun 27, 3:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 48 more86 min
Jun 27, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more5 hr
Jun 27, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJo Daviess, Rock Island4 hr
Jun 27, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette and 18 more89 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 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.