Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2010, 10:11 PM EDT for 54 counties in Indiana; 27 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2010, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2010, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben 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, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, Henry | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 10:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 10:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange, Saint Joseph | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 11:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Starke | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 12:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 12:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 12:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 12:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall and 5 more | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 1:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Carroll | 18 min |
| Jun 6, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 1:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 1:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Carroll | 15 min |
| Jun 6, 1:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami, Wabash | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 1:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 2:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Henry | 13 min |
| Jun 6, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 2:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 3:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Ottawa | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 3:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer, Shelby | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 4:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain, Sandusky, Seneca | 66 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 2440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 23 more | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 12:17 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 44 more | 118 min |
| Jun 6, 2:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 7 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blackford, Boone, Clay, Clinton, Delaware and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 115 min |
| Jun 6, 12:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Erie and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont and 31 more | 7 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.