Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2019, 1:49 PM CDT for 14 counties in Illinois; 33 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2019, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Washington County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Putnam | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 14 min |
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Marion | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Marion | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Randolph | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Rush | 23 min |
| Jun 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Rush | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Monroe, Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jennings | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 4 hr |
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 15, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Rock Island | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mercer, Rock Island | 115 min |
| Jun 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 9 more | 88 min |
| Jun 15, 4:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Monroe, Sullivan | 94 min |
| Jun 15, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Monroe | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Monroe | 62 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2019Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2019Every tornado watch in 2019
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.