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Tornado Watch 434

June 3, 200846 counties in Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2008, 12:08 PM EDT for 46 counties in Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2008, 12:08 PM EDT (16:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2008, 5:34 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 79 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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.

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
70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
50%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Greene, Owen, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and 1 more54 min
Jun 3, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Scott37 min
Jun 3, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCarroll, Owen43 min
Jun 3, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown, Greene, Hendricks, Monroe, Morgan, Owen and 1 more39 min
Jun 3, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Sullivan45 min
Jun 3, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew30 min
Jun 3, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings39 min
Jun 3, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union53 min
Jun 3, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington29 min
Jun 3, 3:05 PM EDTTornado WarningILNDearborn, Ripley29 min
Jun 3, 3:17 PM EDTTornado WarningILNOhio, Switzerland43 min
Jun 3, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Union, Wayne42 min
Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone, Campbell, Kenton40 min
Jun 3, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton, Pendleton31 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2008-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 465 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2008-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 4:08 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Greene, Knox, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo97 min
Jun 3, 4:31 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Daviess, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin and 10 more10 hr
Jun 3, 6:44 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dearborn, Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland3 hr
Jun 3, 8:17 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Daviess, Dubois, Fountain, Greene, Knox and 9 more118 min
Jun 3, 11:05 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 61 more85 min
Jun 3, 1:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Jackson and 10 more2 hr
Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Dearborn and 21 more117 min
Jun 3, 7:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Clinton, Delaware, Fayette, Fountain, Franklin and 19 more88 min
Jun 3, 3:33 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBath, Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Fleming, Greenup and 4 more3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2008Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2008Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2008Every tornado 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.