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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 12, 2000Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 7:10 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 12, 2000, 7:10 PM EST (00:10 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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.

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 12, 6:30 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -342 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.5

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The text

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

607 
WUUS53 KIND 130011
SVRIND
INC157-130045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
710 PM EST FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE

* UNTIL 745 PM EST

* AT 704 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF SHADELAND...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  WEST OF LAFAYETTE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WEST LAFAYETTE AT 720 PM EST
  BATTLE GROUND AT 725 PM EST
  DAYTON AT 730 PM EST

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO MOVE
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

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 4056 8709 4024 8709 4023 8672 4058 8672

TUCEK/KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	28 min
May 12, 7:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion	38 min
May 12, 7:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	38 min
May 12, 7:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton	35 min
May 12, 7:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Tippecanoe	27 min
May 12, 8:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton	29 min
May 12, 8:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	36 min
May 12, 8:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	36 min
May 12, 8:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard, Tipton	29 min
May 12, 9:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	30 min
May 12, 9:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Putnam	24 min
May 12, 9:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene	27 min
May 12, 10:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	34 min
May 12, 10:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	19 min
May 12, 11:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Lawrence, Monroe	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.