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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 568
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2012, 4:02 PM CDT for 14 counties in Illinois; 21 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2012, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2012, 7:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Champaign County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Piatt | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Livingston | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Newton | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Edgar, Vermilion | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Putnam | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois and 6 more | 89 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, McDonough, Mercer and 4 more | 94 min |
| Aug 9, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 57 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.