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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 260
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Illinois; 51 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2016, 8:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 78 counties
Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- 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
- 80%
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 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Monroe, Owen | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Shelby | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan and 2 more | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Lawrence, Martin | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and 1 more | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Parke and 3 more | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Sullivan | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Shelby | 23 min |
| Jun 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Warren | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 25 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1089 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Clay, DeWitt, Effingham, Fayette, Logan and 7 more | 117 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Whiteside | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 11:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle | 93 min |
| Jun 15, 12:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 3 more | 85 min |
| Jun 15, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 97 min |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabash | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.