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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 7:28 PM EST for Johnson County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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, 7:28 PM EST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Johnson County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 7:28 PM EST | Hail 2 | Greenwood, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
951 WUUS53 KIND 180030 SVRIND INC081-180100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 728 PM EST THU AUG 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 800 PM EST * AT 722 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BARGERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITELAND AT 735 PM EST FRANKLIN AT 740 PM EST I-65 IN SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY AT 745 PM EST THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL 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 3962 8625 3944 8624 3935 8597 3963 8598 PUMA/JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 7:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 9:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 10:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 30 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.