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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 17, 1999Vigo County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1999, 5:59 PM EST for Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1999, 5:59 PM EST (22:59 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1999, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -466 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 5:22 PM EST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
522 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0513 PM    GOSPORT                   IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   OWEN                            TREE LIMBS DOWNED.
                                           REPORTED BY AMATEUR
                                           RADIO.

Local storm report, May 17, 5:22 PM EST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
522 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0513 PM    GOSPORT                   IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   OWEN                            TREE LIMBS DOWNED.
                                           REPORTED BY AMATEUR
                                           RADIO.

Local storm report, May 17, 5:58 PM EST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
558 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0539 PM    VINCENNES                 IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   KNOX                            LARGE TREES DOWNED.
                                           REPORTED BY FIRE
                                           DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, May 17, 5:58 PM EST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
558 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0539 PM    VINCENNES                 IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   KNOX                            LARGE TREES DOWNED.
                                           REPORTED BY FIRE
                                           DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, May 17, 5:59 PM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
559 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0538 PM    BRUCEVILLE                IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   KNOX                            TREES DOWNED WITH
                                           ESTIMATED 54 MPH WIND.
                                           REPORTED BY FIRE
                                           DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, May 17, 5:59 PM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
559 PM EST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0538 PM    BRUCEVILLE                IN    WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   KNOX                            TREES DOWNED WITH
                                           ESTIMATED 54 MPH WIND.
                                           REPORTED BY FIRE
                                           DEPARTMENT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 11:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery	33 min
May 17, 1:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Tipton	32 min
May 17, 3:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	39 min
May 17, 4:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe, Owen	27 min
May 17, 4:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	24 min
May 17, 4:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	32 min
May 17, 4:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	16 min
May 17, 4:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	24 min
May 17, 4:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	31 min
May 17, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	26 min
May 17, 4:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	23 min
May 17, 4:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock	34 min
May 17, 5:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	35 min
May 17, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Marion	31 min
May 17, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan	31 min
May 17, 5:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	34 min
May 17, 5:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox	34 min
May 17, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	34 min
May 17, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	34 min
May 17, 5:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock	31 min
May 17, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Martin	46 min
May 17, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox, Sullivan	46 min
May 17, 6:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	48 min
May 17, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	41 min
May 17, 6:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	37 min
May 17, 6:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	30 min
May 17, 6:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan, Putnam	50 min
May 17, 6:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson	39 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.