Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 128
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 5, 2017, 3:08 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2017, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 101 counties
Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson 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, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Union County, KY, 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, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 13 min |
| Apr 5, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 22 min |
| Apr 5, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings, Rush | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wayne, White | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wayne, White | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Union | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Preble | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio | 21 min |
| Apr 5, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Highland | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Greene | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Campbell, Mason, Pendleton | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Lewis, Mason, Pendleton, Robertson | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Highland | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Highland, Ross | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Highland, Pike, Ross, Scioto | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 45 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabash | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Lawrence, Wabash, White | 88 min |
| Apr 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Butler and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 35 more | 84 min |
| Apr 5, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Johnson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle and 54 more | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2017Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2017Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2017Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2017
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.