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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 12:36 PM EST for Fountain County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 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 18, 2000, 12:36 PM EST (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fountain County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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 18, 12:57 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Mellott, 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 18, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 181736 SVRIND INC045-181800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1236 PM EST THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 100 PM EST * AT 1233 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF VEEDERSBURG...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE STORM WILL TRAVEL MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE 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 4024 8731 4003 8726 4006 8713 4023 8713 JK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 35 min |
| May 18, 10:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 27 min |
| May 18, 11:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 14 min |
| May 18, 11:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone | 44 min |
| May 18, 11:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion | 35 min |
| May 18, 12:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 18, 12:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 46 min |
| May 18, 12:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 26 min |
| May 18, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton | 36 min |
| May 18, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton | 45 min |
| May 18, 1:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 46 min |
| May 18, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 43 min |
| May 18, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 38 min |
| May 18, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 45 min |
| May 18, 2:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 35 min |
| May 18, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 31 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.