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Tornado Watch 592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 5, 2023, 4:46 PM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois; 38 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2023, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2023, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson 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, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 17 min |
| Aug 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Tippecanoe | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison, Tipton | 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Delaware, Grant and 15 more | 116 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.