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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 584
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2011, 2:50 PM CDT for 32 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2011, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 51 counties
Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Will County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Cole County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 34 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1099 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage and 26 more | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Douglas and 16 more | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 13 more | 9 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.