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Tornado Watch 431
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2008, 3:31 AM CDT for 51 counties in Illinois; 16 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2008, 3:31 AM CDT (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2008, 1:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 79 counties
Adams County, IL, Bond County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Audrain County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Pike | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Pike | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Bond, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Marion | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 7:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 7:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Douglas, Edgar | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 8:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 8:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Shelby | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 9:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Brown, Clay, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Parke and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard, Morgan | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Menard, Peoria, Tazewell | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 21 min |
| Jun 3, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 10:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Brown | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Lawrence, Monroe | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 10:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Piatt | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Shelby | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Edgar | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and 1 more | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 20 min |
| Jun 3, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Hendricks, Monroe, Morgan, Owen and 1 more | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 45 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 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 2506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 2, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 14 more | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 37 more | 97 min |
| Jun 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 41 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, McDonough and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 45 more | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 12:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, McDonough | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 11:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Dearborn and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Clinton, Delaware, Fayette, Fountain, Franklin and 19 more | 88 min |
| Jun 3, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Guthrie and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 24 more | 86 min |
| Jun 3, 2:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clay and 15 more | 117 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.