Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2009
Tornado Watch 50
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 8, 2009, 2:52 PM EDT for 51 counties in Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky; 13 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2009, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 93 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Brown County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton 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
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Pulaski, White | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 36 min |
| Mar 8, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard, Tipton | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Lawrence, Martin | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash and 1 more | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ripley | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Whitley | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Grayson | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Wells | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ripley | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 36 min |
| Mar 8, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 36 min |
| Mar 8, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Green, Metcalfe, Taylor | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 27 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:39 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Crawford and 39 more | 119 min |
| Mar 8, 3:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Jasper, Lake and 5 more | 55 min |
| Mar 8, 4:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more | 91 min |
| Mar 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Jennings and 5 more | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 37 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey and 23 more | 58 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.