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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 20, 2000Henry County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 6:59 PM EST for Henry County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 20, 2000, 6:59 PM EST (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Henry County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Jun 20, 7:00 PM EST	Tornado F0	Middletown, IN
Jun 20, 7:15 PM EST	Tornado F0	Mt Summit, 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

947 
WFUS53 KIND 210001
TORIND
INC065-210030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
659 PM EST TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 657 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR MIDDLETOWN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SPRINGPORT AT 710 PM EST
  BLOUNTSVILLE AT 715 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 4006 8556 3988 8556 3992 8522 4008 8527
DT

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, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	28 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

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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.