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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Indianapolis, IN

August 9, 2000Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 4:24 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min. 4 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 9, 2000, 4:24 PM EST (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rush County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 9, 4:25 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECountywide, INNumerous trees downed across the county.
Aug 9, 4:43 PM ESTHail 2.5Rushville, IN
Aug 9, 5:00 PM ESTHail 0.75Glenwood, IN
Aug 9, 5:01 PM ESTHail 1.75Rushville, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 9, 3:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2404 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
8.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 092125
SVRIND
INC139-092200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
424 PM EST WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 420 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSHVILLE...MOVING EAST 
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RUSHVILLE AT 435 PM EST

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

LAT...LON 3978 8562 3958 8563 3944 8501 3965 8492
DT/SE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 6:57 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHoward33 min
Aug 9, 7:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Marion33 min
Aug 9, 7:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMadison33 min
Aug 9, 7:56 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware19 min
Aug 9, 7:59 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRandolph31 min
Aug 9, 8:46 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJackson29 min
Aug 9, 3:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry25 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush15 min
Aug 9, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur38 min
Aug 9, 6:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew38 min
Aug 9, 6:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.