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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 28, 2001Parke County, Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2001, 7:12 PM EST for Parke County, Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 28, 2001, 7:12 PM EST (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2001, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Jul 28, 7:12 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Bellmore, IN
Jul 28, 7:45 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Greencastle, 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 290012
SVRIND
INC121-133-290045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
712 PM EST SAT JUL 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EST

* AT 712 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  TERRE HAUTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GREENCASTLE AT 745 PM EST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASST
OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

LAT...LON 3989 8720 3975 8734 3952 8687 3966 8674

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 2:30 PM EST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:30 PM EST, 4 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
230 PM EST SAT JUL 28 2001

THIS AFTERNOON A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA.
THE MAIN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT
WAS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA.

THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THIS FORECAST WILL BE WHEN THE RAIN
REDEVELOPES. SHOWERS HAVE BEEN DECREASING IN SOUTHERN ILLINIOS WHILE
AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN THE NORTHERN PORTION. ALL WERE
MOVING EAST. THE MOISTURE REMAINS VERY HIGH OVER THE AREA. AN AREAS
OF PVA MOVS INTO INDIANA TNGT. THIS SHOULD CAUSE THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOPE. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE CAT POPS. WILL
MENTION HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE SOUTH. NEAR GUID TEMPS.

ANOTHER PROBLEM IS HOW FAST THE RAIN WILL MOVE OUT. GUID CONTINUES
TO MOV THE VORT E OF INDIANA ON SUNDAY. WILL CONTINUE WITH A CHC
DURING THE MORNING THEN BCMG PRTLY SUNNY. NEAR GID TEMPS. WITH DEW
PTS AROUND 70 WILL MENTION HUMID.

DRY AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO INDIANA ON
MONDAY. PRTLY SUNNY WITH NEAR GID TEMPS.

.IND...NONE.
HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 7:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
Jul 29, 3:19 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	116 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.