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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 467
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 3, 2015, 3:56 PM EDT for 6 counties in Indiana; 18 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2015, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2015, 9:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 19 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Preble | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 4:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Union | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren | 16 min |
| Aug 3, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland, Pike | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Fulton and 14 more | 86 min |
| Aug 3, 3:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin and 10 more | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 6:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland | 92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.