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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 6:12 PM EST for Hendricks County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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 17, 2000, 6:12 PM EST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2000, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hendricks County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 17, 6:23 PM EST | Hail 2.5 | Danville, IN | |
| Aug 17, 6:35 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Plainfield, IN | |
| Aug 17, 6:39 PM EST | Hail 2 | Danville, IN | |
| Aug 17, 6:45 PM EST | Hail 1 | Avon, 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 17, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 172312 SVRIND INC063-172345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 612 PM EST THU AUG 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 645 PM EST * AT 604 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. 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. LAT...LON 3987 8671 3966 8664 3968 8636 3990 8639 PUMA/TUCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 4:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Putnam | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion, Morgan | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 6:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 6:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Marion | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.