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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 381

July 13, 20164 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 141 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 60%

Warnings issued inside it

21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble	28 min
Jul 13, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen and 3 more	48 min
Jul 13, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Johnson, Rush and 1 more	32 min
Jul 13, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Miami, Montgomery	33 min
Jul 13, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	47 min
Jul 13, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne	39 min
Jul 13, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	52 min
Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, Morgan and 1 more	44 min
Jul 13, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	41 min
Jul 13, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Lawrence, Monroe	39 min
Jul 13, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	35 min
Jul 13, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	34 min
Jul 13, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland	22 min
Jul 13, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette	32 min
Jul 13, 10:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	31 min
Jul 13, 10:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	23 min
Jul 13, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	32 min
Jul 13, 11:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Highland	12 min
Jul 13, 11:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	25 min
Jul 14, 12:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine	37 min
Jul 14, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	30 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1008 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 3:03 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 35 more	87 min
Jul 13, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Gibson, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Pike and 5 more	5 hr
Jul 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 35 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 6:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Fountain, Gibson and 17 more	2 hr
Jul 13, 6:47 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bay, Genesee, Gratiot, Huron, Lapeer, Livingston and 11 more	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2016 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2016 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2016 Every 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.