Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 476
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT for 44 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 44 counties
Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay 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, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vigo | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hendricks, Howard | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Howard | 15 min |
| Jun 6, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Marion, Tipton | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Madison, Randolph | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Owen, Sullivan and 1 more | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay, Wells | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Monroe, Owen, Putnam | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 9:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Shelby | 15 min |
| Jun 6, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe | 40 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall, Noble and 2 more | 90 min |
| Jun 6, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 13 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Wayne | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.