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Tornado Watch 444
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2008, 9:29 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 115 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Miami County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 3:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Madison | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 3:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 3:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami | 9 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 9 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clark | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Madison | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Putnam | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 5:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Marion | 94 min |
| Jun 4, 6:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Clay, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke and 3 more | 97 min |
| Jun 4, 6:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Marion and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jun 4, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Monroe | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Decatur, Hendricks, Johnson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 7:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Highland | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 8:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 8:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland, Pickaway, Pike, Ross | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 8:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 9:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Washington | 51 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 584 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 30.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette and 13 more | 88 min |
| Jun 4, 12:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 52 more | 86 min |
| Jun 4, 2:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gibson, Posey | 91 min |
| Jun 4, 3:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 95 min |
| Jun 4, 2:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 50 more | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware and 23 more | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer and 14 more | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Braxton, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 97 min |
| Jun 4, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Hardy, Jefferson and 7 more | 116 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.