Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 4:00 PM EST for Carroll County, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 60 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 31, 2000, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carroll County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 31, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913 WUUS53 KIND 312102 SVRIND INC015-157-312200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 400 PM EST WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHEASTERN TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 500 PM EST * AT 354 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF YEOMAN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF RENSSELAER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... YEOMAN AT 410 PM EST DELPHI AT 415 PM EST CAMDEN AT 420 PM EST THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN INDIANA. LAT...LON 4072 8671 4046 8700 4036 8679 4056 8644 CURRAN/KENYON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every 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.