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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 20, 2000Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 5:32 PM EST for Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 20, 2000, 5:32 PM EST (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Putnam County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

111 
WUUS53 KIND 202233
SVRIND
INC133-202300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
532 PM EST TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 530 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF CLOVERDALE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  EAST OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLOVERDALE AT 545 PM EST

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 3956 8702 3946 8703 3947 8671 3963 8665

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 4:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Montgomery	27 min
Jun 20, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	23 min
Jun 20, 5:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Vigo	26 min
Jun 20, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	27 min
Jun 20, 6:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison	34 min
Jun 20, 6:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan	20 min
Jun 20, 6:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	28 min
Jun 20, 6:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Henry	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.