Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 381
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2014, 11:35 PM EDT for 30 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2014, 11:35 PM EDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 34 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 12:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 12:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 29 min |
| Jul 1, 12:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, Starke | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 12:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 12:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 1:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 1:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 1:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble, Whitley | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 1:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 1:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells and 1 more | 54 min |
| Jul 1, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 1:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 2:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 2:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 26 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 3809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 27.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton and 5 more | 88 min |
| Jun 30, 9:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 84 min |
| Jun 30, 10:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake | 88 min |
| Jun 30, 11:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Fulton and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 11:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake, Newton | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 12:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fountain, Fulton and 14 more | 89 min |
| Jul 1, 1:24 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Jay, LaGrange and 4 more | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 2:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 11 more | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison and 10 more | 92 min |
| Jun 30, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hillsdale, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Macomb, Saint Clair | 55 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.