Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:43 PM EST for Hancock County, Henry County, Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2000, 10:43 PM EST (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 11:15 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Rush County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 070345 SVRIND INC059-065-139-070415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1043 PM EST SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1115 PM EST * AT 1040 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILKINSON...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILKINSON AT 1050 PM EST CARTHAGE AT 1055 PM EST CADIZ AT 1100 PM EST DUNREITH AT 1105 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. LAT...LON 3994 8578 3970 8578 3968 8530 3995 8527 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, 10:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 26 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 |
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.