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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 9, 2000Johnson County, Marion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 3:11 PM EST for Johnson County, Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2000, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, IN, Marion County, 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
May 9, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 092012
SVRIND
INC081-097-092045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
311 PM EST TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 309 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF BARGERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 22
  MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BARGERSVILLE AT 335 PM EST
  BEECH GROVE AT 340 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST
TUESDAY EVENING FOR INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3971 8630 3946 8626 3955 8597 3978 8599

TUCEK/CREAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	45 min
May 9, 2:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	24 min
May 9, 3:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion, Warren	46 min
May 9, 3:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	31 min
May 9, 4:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	26 min
May 9, 4:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	39 min
May 9, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	28 min
May 9, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	33 min
May 9, 4:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	26 min
May 9, 4:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	31 min
May 9, 4:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton	43 min
May 9, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	47 min
May 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Tipton	51 min
May 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard	51 min
May 9, 5:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Marion	27 min
May 9, 5:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	36 min
May 9, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware	48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.