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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 292
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2017, 1:56 PM EDT for 23 counties in Indiana; 17 counties in Michigan; 29 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2017, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 69 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Medina County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Portage County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 46 min |
| May 28, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry | 37 min |
| May 28, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 48 min |
| May 28, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 42 min |
| May 28, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry | 39 min |
| May 28, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 77 min |
| May 28, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 22 min |
| May 28, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
| May 28, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 21 min |
| May 28, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 3 hr |
| May 28, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 41 min |
| May 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 41 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake, Summit | 33 min |
| May 28, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 42 min |
| May 28, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Putnam | 51 min |
| May 28, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 41 min |
| May 28, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 43 min |
| May 28, 7:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 18 min |
| May 28, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 46 min |
| May 28, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot | 57 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 36 more | 119 min |
| May 28, 4:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 24 more | 66 min |
| May 28, 5:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, DeKalb and 12 more | 59 min |
| May 28, 7:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Delaware and 15 more | 96 min |
| May 28, 12:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alpena, Antrim, Cheboygan, Clare, Crawford, Emmet and 11 more | 66 min |
| May 27, 8:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs and 4 more | 83 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.