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Tornado Watch 98

March 31, 202327 counties in Illinois; 79 counties in Indiana; 61 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2023, 6:59 PM CDT for 27 counties in Illinois; 79 counties in Indiana; 61 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2023, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2023, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 167 counties

Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, 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, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pope County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson 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, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Sangamon, Shelby	44 min
Mar 31, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	Christian, Macon, Shelby	23 min
Mar 31, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Piatt	25 min
Mar 31, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon	27 min
Mar 31, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Macon, Piatt	35 min
Mar 31, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	31 min
Mar 31, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	28 min
Mar 31, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby	26 min
Mar 31, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Christian, Coles, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie and 2 more	28 min
Mar 31, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	50 min
Mar 31, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warren	33 min
Mar 31, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham	28 min
Mar 31, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion	33 min
Mar 31, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pope	33 min
Mar 31, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	White	42 min
Mar 31, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Effingham, Moultrie and 1 more	24 min
Mar 31, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	14 min
Mar 31, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	52 min
Mar 31, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope, Pulaski	21 min
Mar 31, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	35 min
Mar 31, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	50 min
Mar 31, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Vermilion	33 min
Mar 31, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline	28 min
Mar 31, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	38 min
Mar 31, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 3 more	34 min
Mar 31, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	ILX	Crawford, Jasper	31 min
Mar 31, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	16 min
Mar 31, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	45 min
Mar 31, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	45 min
Mar 31, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin	27 min
Mar 31, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami, Wabash, White	39 min
Mar 31, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	23 min
Mar 31, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Sullivan	52 min
Mar 31, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hardin	21 min
Mar 31, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Edgar	13 min
Mar 31, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe	26 min
Mar 31, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	25 min
Mar 31, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Jasper	24 min
Mar 31, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, White	52 min
Mar 31, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hardin	36 min
Mar 31, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo	33 min
Mar 31, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph	31 min
Mar 31, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	28 min
Mar 31, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick	24 min
Mar 31, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Knox, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo	23 min
Mar 31, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IND	Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan	38 min
Mar 31, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Montgomery, Tippecanoe and 1 more	35 min
Mar 31, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Montgomery, Tipton	33 min
Mar 31, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	32 min
Mar 31, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	31 min
Mar 31, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash and 1 more	45 min
Mar 31, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, McLean, Union	15 min
Mar 31, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	27 min
Mar 31, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Boone, Clay, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen and 3 more	50 min
Mar 31, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	35 min
Mar 31, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard	19 min
Mar 31, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Clay, Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Sullivan and 1 more	33 min
Mar 31, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe, Morgan, Owen	30 min
Mar 31, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Saline, Wayne and 1 more	44 min
Mar 31, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	26 min
Mar 31, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Delaware, Hamilton, Howard, Madison and 1 more	34 min
Mar 31, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	33 min
Mar 31, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Whitley	47 min
Mar 31, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan, Shelby	44 min
Mar 31, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Huntington, Wabash, Wells	57 min
Mar 31, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and 2 more	42 min
Mar 31, 10:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells	25 min
Mar 31, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	25 min
Mar 31, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	24 min
Mar 31, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Owen and 1 more	23 min
Mar 31, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison and 4 more	36 min
Mar 31, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	15 min
Mar 31, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen	29 min
Mar 31, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne, White	38 min
Mar 31, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells	34 min
Mar 31, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen	34 min
Mar 31, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison, Randolph	48 min
Mar 31, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Brown, Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Johnson, Marion and 2 more	33 min
Mar 31, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb	56 min
Mar 31, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Johnson, Madison, Marion and 2 more	50 min
Mar 31, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	44 min
Mar 31, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Adams, Allen	57 min
Mar 31, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	12 min
Mar 31, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Allen	55 min
Mar 31, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Rush	9 min
Mar 31, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	16 min
Mar 31, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Adams, Jay	16 min
Mar 31, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	31 min
Mar 31, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	27 min
Mar 31, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Warren	38 min
Mar 31, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	20 min
Mar 31, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	29 min
Mar 31, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson, Warren	33 min
Apr 1, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Green, Hart, Metcalfe	44 min
Apr 1, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	23 min
Apr 1, 12:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	27 min
Apr 1, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	24 min
Apr 1, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby	21 min
Apr 1, 12:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Marion, Taylor	28 min
Apr 1, 12:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	16 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 646 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 712 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 8:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Hancock, Jersey and 8 more	84 min
Mar 31, 10:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson and 10 more	53 min
Mar 31, 11:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 27 more	96 min
Mar 31, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 36 more	8 hr
Mar 31, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 14 more	11 hr
Mar 31, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 10 more	97 min
Mar 31, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Knox, McDonough and 5 more	118 min
Mar 31, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 26 more	83 min
Mar 31, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more	7 hr
Mar 31, 3:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 20 more	88 min
Mar 31, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 21 more	55 min
Mar 31, 5:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 27 more	117 min
Mar 31, 5:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 27 more	2 hr
Mar 31, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more	115 min
Mar 31, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Trigg	93 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.