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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 457

June 10, 201119 counties in Illinois; 66 counties in Indiana; 28 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2011, 1:02 PM CDT for 19 counties in Illinois; 66 counties in Indiana; 28 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2011, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 113 counties

Bond County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Washington County, IL, 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, 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, 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, Shelby County, IN, Starke 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, Adams County, OH, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Highland County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMadison, Tipton24 min
Jun 10, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall, Starke54 min
Jun 10, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMadison26 min
Jun 10, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Shelby33 min
Jun 10, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Marshall40 min
Jun 10, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown, Johnson, Morgan53 min
Jun 10, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware, Madison29 min
Jun 10, 3:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXClay6 hr
Jun 10, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Shelby45 min
Jun 10, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay, Effingham53 min
Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware, Henry, Madison, Randolph48 min
Jun 10, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe46 min
Jun 10, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke28 min
Jun 10, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn39 min
Jun 10, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Greene, Warren30 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Whitley45 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Hamilton, Warren49 min
Jun 10, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen39 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Ripley47 min
Jun 10, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLawrence29 min
Jun 10, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland, Warren39 min
Jun 10, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette, Marion65 min
Jun 10, 5:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, Huntington3 hr
Jun 10, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery43 min
Jun 10, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton52 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign34 min
Jun 10, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton39 min
Jun 10, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign, Logan, Union28 min
Jun 10, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery22 min
Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILNDearborn, Ohio113 min
Jun 10, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Greene, Madison, Pickaway50 min
Jun 10, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMarion10 hr
Jun 10, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin45 min
Jun 10, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami, Montgomery23 min
Jun 10, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton, Fayette, Marion62 min
Jun 10, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Madison, Pickaway34 min
Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAuglaize, Champaign, Logan, Shelby50 min
Jun 10, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke, Miami, Shelby60 min
Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXBond, Fayette4 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 581 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 12:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 11 more95 min
Jun 10, 3:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham and 6 more87 min
Jun 10, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 9 more7 hr
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt and 20 more65 min
Jun 10, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan and 13 more6 hr
Jun 10, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 23 more5 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.