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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 9:18 PM EST for Clay County, Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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 12, 2000, 9:18 PM EST (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IN, Greene 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 12, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
776 WUUS53 KIND 130220 SVRIND INC021-055-130245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 918 PM EST FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 912 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF JASONVILLE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLAY CITY AT 925 PM EST WORTHINGTON AT 930 PM EST BLOOMFIELD AT 935 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. $$ 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, 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, 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.