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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 330
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2017, 4:32 PM EDT for 12 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Cass County, Michigan. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2017, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2017, 8:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Cass County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Wabash County, IN, White County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Cass County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Marshall | 29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 51 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, DeKalb and 25 more | 118 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper and 13 more | 91 min |
| Jun 14, 6:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Brown, Clinton, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks and 8 more | 59 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.