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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 375
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2014, 3:33 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2014, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Particularly dangerous situation
- Yes
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 43 counties
Cook County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, Livingston County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Will County, IL, Benton County, IN, Cass County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, White County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Cass County, MI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 80%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock, Sauk | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth and 1 more | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will | 61 min |
| Jun 30, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall, Will | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kankakee, Will | 56 min |
| Jun 30, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Lake, Porter | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien, Cass | 51 min |
| Jun 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Kane, LaSalle, Lee, McHenry | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, LaSalle, Livingston | 57 min |
| Jun 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle and 1 more | 78 min |
| Jun 30, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Will | 56 min |
| Jun 30, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Livingston | 78 min |
| Jun 30, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 78 min |
| Jun 30, 10:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 28 min |
| Jun 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee | 18 min |
| Jun 30, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 18 min |
| Jun 30, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 48 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 92 min |
| Jun 29, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Kane, Lee and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 11 more | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 10:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Logan, Macon, Mason, Menard, Montgomery and 5 more | 87 min |
| Jun 30, 1:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, DeKalb, DeWitt and 36 more | 93 min |
| Jun 30, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Hancock and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 35 more | 35 min |
| Jun 30, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and 6 more | 117 min |
| Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeWitt, LaSalle, McLean, Marshall, Peoria, Putnam and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jun 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess, Rock Island | 92 min |
| Jun 29, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Marquette, Ontonagon | 87 min |
| Jun 30, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Gladwin and 21 more | 88 min |
| Jun 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Grant | 85 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.