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Tornado Watch 24
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2019, 9:47 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2019, 9:47 AM CDT (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 111 counties
Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson 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, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
73 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 19 min |
| Mar 14, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 10:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 21 min |
| Mar 14, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 10:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 10:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Warrick | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 11:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 16 min |
| Mar 14, 11:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 22 min |
| Mar 14, 12:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Warrick | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 21 min |
| Mar 14, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 12:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer, Warrick | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 12:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 16 min |
| Mar 14, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Franklin, Ripley | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 17 min |
| Mar 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 19 min |
| Mar 14, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Washington | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 15 min |
| Mar 14, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 12 min |
| Mar 14, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 14 min |
| Mar 14, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 18 min |
| Mar 14, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 16 min |
| Mar 14, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 31 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 554 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 695 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 14, 9:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Saline and 2 more | 119 min |
| Mar 14, 10:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Iroquois and 17 more | 96 min |
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer and 2 more | 83 min |
| Mar 14, 12:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Perry, Spencer | 67 min |
| Mar 14, 1:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 54 min |
| Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton, Hickman | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Franklin, Gallatin and 18 more | 88 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.