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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 57
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 27, 2016, 6:33 PM EDT for 9 counties in Indiana; Hillsdale County, Lenawee County, Monroe County, Michigan; 15 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2016, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2016, 11:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wells County, IN, Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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
- 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 46 min |
| Mar 27, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood | 58 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 3:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 78 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 55 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 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.