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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 12, 2000Howard County, Tipton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 8:31 PM EST for Howard County, Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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, 8:31 PM EST (01:31 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Howard County, IN, Tipton County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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.

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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

064 
WUUS53 KIND 130133
SVRIND
INC067-159-130200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KOKOMO
  TIPTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 900 PM EST

* AT 826 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSIAVILLE...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES WEST OF KOKOMO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KOKOMO AT 840 PM EST
  TIPTON AT 850 PM EST 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR INDIANA.

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 8634 4024 8621 4024 8591 4057 8590
TUCEK/KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	35 min
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, 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.