Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 10:11 PM EST for Fountain County, Warren County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 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, 10:11 PM EST (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fountain County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 210312 SVRIND INC045-171-210400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1011 PM EST TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1100 PM EST * AT 1008 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF STATE LINE CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STATE LINE CITY AT 1020 PM EST WEST LEBANON AT 1030 PM EST WILLIAMSPORT AT 1035 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR INDIANA. LAT...LON 4029 8780 4014 8775 4020 8712 4040 8712 KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 12:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 35 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.