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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 4:34 PM EST for Carroll County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 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
- May 9, 2000, 4:34 PM EST (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Carroll County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Camden, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 092136 SVRIND INC015-092200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 434 PM EST TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 500 PM EST * AT 425 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF DELPHI...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CAMDEN AT 445 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. LAT...LON 4074 8682 4050 8670 4064 8638 4075 8656 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, 3:11 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, 4:04 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, 4:44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.