Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 10:38 PM EST for Fountain County, Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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, 10:38 PM EST (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 11:15 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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.
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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 210339 SVRIND INC045-165-210415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1038 PM EST TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1115 PM EST * AT 1033 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF PERRYSVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PERRYSVILLE AT 1050 PM EST COVINGTON AT 1055 PM EST VEEDERSBURG AT 1105 PM EST HILLSBORO AT 1110 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 4012 8772 3995 8767 3998 8711 4017 8714 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, 10:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 12:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 35 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.