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Tornado Watch 374

June 25, 202360 counties in Indiana; 5 counties in Michigan

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 2023, 1:34 PM EDT for 60 counties in Indiana; 5 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2023, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 65 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	55 min
Jun 25, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	25 min
Jun 25, 2:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Marshall, Starke	23 min
Jun 25, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IWX	Marshall, Starke	39 min
Jun 25, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami, White	29 min
Jun 25, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	30 min
Jun 25, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	25 min
Jun 25, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	46 min
Jun 25, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph	43 min
Jun 25, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	55 min
Jun 25, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Putnam, Vigo	23 min
Jun 25, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	36 min
Jun 25, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall	66 min
Jun 25, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery	33 min
Jun 25, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	37 min
Jun 25, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble	37 min
Jun 25, 3:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Tipton	31 min
Jun 25, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Saint Joseph	42 min
Jun 25, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan	38 min
Jun 25, 3:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Monroe, Morgan, Owen	28 min
Jun 25, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben and 1 more	56 min
Jun 25, 3:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hamilton, Madison, Tipton	34 min
Jun 25, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion, Rush	30 min
Jun 25, 4:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash	27 min
Jun 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Daviess, Martin	25 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin	23 min
Jun 25, 4:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe, Morgan, Owen	50 min
Jun 25, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Shelby	34 min
Jun 25, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson, Shelby	30 min
Jun 25, 4:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin	41 min
Jun 25, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	51 min
Jun 25, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Henry, Madison	35 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Daviess, Martin	34 min
Jun 25, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe	44 min
Jun 25, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Whitley	44 min
Jun 25, 4:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IND	Johnson, Marion, Rush, Shelby	28 min
Jun 25, 4:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	26 min
Jun 25, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Tipton	24 min
Jun 25, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Monroe	52 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe	46 min
Jun 25, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IWX	Branch, Hillsdale	43 min
Jun 25, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	38 min
Jun 25, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence	25 min
Jun 25, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Decatur, Rush, Shelby	35 min
Jun 25, 5:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Jackson	39 min
Jun 25, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Whitley	36 min
Jun 25, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Martin	20 min
Jun 25, 5:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Jackson, Jennings	39 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 12:56 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 35 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 3 more	83 min
Jun 25, 3:46 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union	89 min
Jun 25, 3:54 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Daviess and 27 more	87 min
Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 25, 5:47 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison and 12 more	118 min
Jun 25, 1:10 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry and 40 more	8 hr
Jun 25, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb and 7 more	4 hr
Jun 25, 4:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arenac, Bay, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton and 25 more	87 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.