Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Indianapolis, IN

Issued

Aug 17, 2000, 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)

Expired

Aug 17, 2000, 5:00 PM EST

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Indianapolis, IN

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montgomery County, IN

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS53 KIND 172116
SVRIND
INC107-172200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
415 PM EST THU AUG 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 413 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WAYNETOWN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CRAWFORDSVILLE AT 435 PM EST
  DARLINGTON AT 450 PM EST
  NEW ROSS AT 500 PM EST

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK
THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

YOU MAY ALSO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
ONLINE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND.

LAT...LON 4017 8710 3997 8710 3991 8672 4019 8671
DT/JS

NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 17, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
230 PM EST THU AUG 17 2000

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS EVENING ALONG A WARM FRONT
THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA. A COLD FRONT WILL PASS LATER TONIGHT AND
END THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. COOLER AND LESS HUMID AIR WILL MOVE
IN LATER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

THE WARM FRONT WAS FROM LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...
THROUGH SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE AIR OVER THE
AREA WAS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE AS TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS ROSE.
SURFACE BASED LIFTED INDEXES WERE AS LOW AS -10 OVER THE SOUTHWEST
PART OF THE AREA. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WARM
FRONT AS CAP OVER AREA WEAKENS.

MODELS HAVE THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE MOVING PAST THE AREA BY SHORTLY
AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY
MORNING. EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS NORTHWEST OF THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE
THIS AFTERNOON IS FORECAST TO BE OVER THE AREA LATER TONIGHT AND
TOMORROW MORNING.

MODELS AGREE...MOVING SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE UPPER GREAT
LAKES TOMORROW NIGHT AND SATURDAY. COOLER AND LESS HUMID AIR IS
FORECAST FOR THE AREA. AN UPPER IMPULSE FORECAST TO MOVE EAST FROM
THE PLAINS STATES MAY BRING INCREASING HIGH CLOUDINESS TO THE
FORECAST AREA SATURDAY.

GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES ARE REASONABLE. WITH MORNING CLOUDINESS
TOMORROW AND COLD AIR ADVECTION...HAVE TENDED TOWARD THE COOLER AVN
TEMPERATURES. LOWER DEW POINTS OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS STATES
SUGGEST TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW THE COOLER AVN TOMORROW NIGHT. WITH
SOME INCREASE IN CLOUDS SATURDAY...TEMPERATURES ARE MORE LIKELY TO
CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE COOLER AVN.

.IND...NONE.
DS

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

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.