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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 9, 2000Fountain County, Parke County, Vermillion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 4:04 PM EST for Fountain County, Parke County, Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2000, 4:04 PM EST (21:04 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fountain County, IN, Parke County, IN, Vermillion 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -353 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -452 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -893 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 092105
SVRIND
INC045-121-165-092130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  CENTRAL VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 430 PM EST

* AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DANA...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MONTEZUMA AT 410 PM EST
  CAYUGA AT 415 PM EST
  WALLACE AT 435 PM EST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA.

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 3977 8772 3969 8754 3991 8712 4014 8720

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, 3:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion	34 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, 4:06 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.