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Tornado Watch 363
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2019, 8:40 PM EDT for 8 counties in Indiana; Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; 10 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2019, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2019, 12:42 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Preble County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 9:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Wayne | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Ripley | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union, Wayne | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 10:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 30 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Union | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 2:14 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Fountain and 21 more | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 2:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 26 more | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd and 21 more | 93 min |
| Jun 16, 7:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 32 more | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Floyd, Greenup, Knott, Lawrence and 4 more | 4 hr |
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.