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Tornado Watch 41

March 11, 20264 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 11, 2026, 5:22 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2026, 5:22 AM CDT (10:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 142 counties

Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin 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, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson 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, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Adams County, OH, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
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: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 5:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	51 min
Mar 11, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar	57 min
Mar 11, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper	49 min
Mar 11, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Wayne	40 min
Mar 11, 5:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper	21 min
Mar 11, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, White	44 min
Mar 11, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	25 min
Mar 11, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper, Richland	43 min
Mar 11, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne, White	53 min
Mar 11, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper	49 min
Mar 11, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	41 min
Mar 11, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan and 1 more	52 min
Mar 11, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	36 min
Mar 11, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	48 min
Mar 11, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	42 min
Mar 11, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin and 3 more	45 min
Mar 11, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence	32 min
Mar 11, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange	43 min
Mar 11, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Van Wert	36 min
Mar 11, 7:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Tipton	35 min
Mar 11, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Clay, Greene, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion and 4 more	49 min
Mar 11, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Daviess, Greene, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence and 2 more	49 min
Mar 11, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Henry, Madison, Tipton	23 min
Mar 11, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam, Van Wert	35 min
Mar 11, 7:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Johnson and 3 more	54 min
Mar 11, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Randolph	54 min
Mar 11, 8:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Jay	29 min
Mar 11, 8:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Jay	16 min
Mar 11, 8:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Mercer	52 min
Mar 11, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	49 min
Mar 11, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Jay	14 min
Mar 11, 8:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Shelby	48 min
Mar 11, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Van Wert	44 min
Mar 11, 8:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Shelby	52 min
Mar 11, 9:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Logan, Shelby	16 min
Mar 11, 9:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Hardin, Logan	41 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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 2012 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 356 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 15.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 7:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 18 more	84 min
Mar 10, 7:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Iroquois and 16 more	54 min
Mar 10, 10:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Hancock and 18 more	89 min
Mar 11, 1:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles and 17 more	91 min
Mar 11, 4:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 21 more	2 hr
Mar 11, 7:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Wabash	86 min
Mar 11, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Lawrence, Wabash	84 min
Mar 10, 8:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, Saint Joseph and 1 more	56 min
Mar 11, 12:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, DeKalb, Kosciusko, Marshall, Noble, Steuben and 1 more	64 min
Mar 11, 10:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Jefferson, Ohio, Scott and 1 more	2 hr
Mar 11, 10:59 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 5 more	7 hr
Mar 11, 9:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence	8 hr
Mar 11, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clinton, Monroe	113 min
Mar 11, 4:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	119 min
Mar 11, 9:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 26 more	2 hr
Mar 11, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking and 9 more	85 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.