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Tornado Watch 483
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 19, 2009, 6:59 PM EDT for 71 counties in Indiana; 5 counties in Michigan; 19 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2009, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2009, 2:34 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 95 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew 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, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange 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, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- 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
- 95%
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 19, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 8:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 9:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 24 min |
| Jun 19, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 9:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Madison, Marion | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Owen | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Madison | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 24 min |
| Jun 19, 11:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 12:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Tipton | 21 min |
| Jun 20, 1:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 2:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 3 hr |
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Porter and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb and 28 more | 97 min |
| Jun 19, 4:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Delaware, Fayette and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 11 more | 83 min |
| Jun 19, 11:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 41 more | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 11:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 2:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 27 more | 83 min |
| Jun 19, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 8 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 48 more | 94 min |
| Jun 19, 6:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Fountain, Jasper, Lake and 11 more | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 7:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee and 19 more | 86 min |
| Jun 19, 5:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey and 10 more | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey and 9 more | 3 hr |
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.