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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Indianapolis, IN

August 6, 2000Hancock County, Shelby County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:19 PM EST for Hancock County, Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2000, 10:19 PM EST (03:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 10:45 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hancock County, IN, Shelby County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 10:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Freeport, IN
Aug 6, 10:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Mt Comfort, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 6, 5:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 14.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 070321
SVRIND
INC059-145-070345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1019 PM EST SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE

* UNTIL 1045 PM EST

* AT 1015 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CUMBERLAND AT 1035 PM EST
  FAIRLAND AT 1045 PM EST
  SHELBYVILLE AT 1045 PM
  GREENFIELD AT 1045 PM

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING LAKE...NEW
  PALESTINE AND MORRISTOWN

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

LAT...LON 3984 8597 3963 8595 3944 8594 3952 8571
          3995 8565

SH/SE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 8:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	25 min
Aug 6, 8:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	35 min
Aug 6, 10:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	49 min
Aug 6, 10:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	33 min
Aug 6, 10:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry, Rush	32 min
Aug 6, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	36 min
Aug 6, 11:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.