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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 9, 1999Madison County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1999, 6:09 PM EST for Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 9, 1999, 6:09 PM EST (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1999, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 2326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 092312
SVRIND
INC095-092345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
609 PM EST WED JUN 9 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANDERSON

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 608 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES NORTH OF ANDERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER FISHERSBURG
  OVER ANDERSON AT 620 PM EST
  OVER ALEXANDRIA AT 635 PM EST
  

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

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

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

INZ060-092015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
245 PM EST WED JUN 9 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
INDIANA HAS EXPIRED.

NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS STORM. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN
DID RESULT IN RAINFALL TOTALS OF AROUND AN INCH ACROSS THE COUNTY.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:08 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
408 PM EST WED JUN 09 1999

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

0406 PM    MARTINSVILLE              IN     MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/99   MORGAN                          TREES DOWNED. REPORTED
                                           BY SHERIFF.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
449 PM EST WED JUN 09 1999

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

0335 PM    NORTH TERRE HAUTE         IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/09/99   VIGO                            TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWNED BY HIGH WINDS.
                                           REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                            SHERIFF.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:10 PM EST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
510 PM EST WED JUN 09 1999

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

04t06 PM    MARTINSVILLE              IN     MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/99   MORGAN                          TREES DOWNED.  REPORTED
                                           BY SHERIFF.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	30 min
Jun 9, 3:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	34 min
Jun 9, 4:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	42 min
Jun 9, 4:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	34 min
Jun 9, 5:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Marion	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.