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Tornado Watch 196
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 2024, 4:55 PM EDT for 7 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Michigan; 18 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2024, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2024, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Jay County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wells County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Allen County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 95 min |
| May 7, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Steuben | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 62 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Steuben | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 27 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 93 min |
| May 7, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 27 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 17 min |
| May 7, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 24 min |
| May 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 82 min |
| May 7, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 25 min |
| May 7, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 24 min |
| May 7, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston, Washtenaw | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Paulding | 35 min |
| May 7, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 7, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 42 min |
| May 7, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry, Putnam | 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Elkhart and 24 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 49 more | 12 hr |
| May 7, 3:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 37 more | 67 min |
| May 7, 4:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, DeKalb and 17 more | 87 min |
| May 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 6:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Steuben | 89 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 54 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin and 11 more | 94 min |
| May 7, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 1:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Gallia and 10 more | 87 min |
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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.