Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 621
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.
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.
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Lawrence, Richland | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 119 min |
| Jun 27, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Owen | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan | 22 min |
| Jun 27, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 63 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 11:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 59 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 48 more | 86 min |
| Jun 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jo Daviess, Rock Island | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette and 18 more | 89 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.