Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Indianapolis, IN

Issued

Oct 24, 2001, 2:59 PM EST (19:59 UTC)

Expired

Oct 24, 2001, 3:30 PM EST

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Indianapolis, IN

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Owen County, IN, Putnam County, IN

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS53 KIND 241959
SVRIND
INC119-133-242030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
259 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 257 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLOVERDALE...OR ABOUT 26
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLOVERDALE AT 310 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 FORECAST
OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

LAT...LON 3945 8697 3931 8689 3936 8674 3950 8672
          3959 8669 3965 8683

NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 2:40 PM EST, 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
240 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001

WITH INCOMING SQUALL INLINE AND VARIOUS EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS...AND
MODELS CLOSE...DIDNT SPEED TOO MUCH TIME TRYING TO WORK ON GUIDANCE.

AS IWX POINTED OUT...MAIN CONCERN...EXCEPT FOR THE SQUALL
LINE...THREAT OF HIGH WINDS LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. ALL MODELS
HAVE GRADIENT MORE RELAXED FOR OUR AREA THAN FARTHER NORTH. SINCE
CORE OF SYSTEM ALOFT ALSO PASSING WELL TO NORTH DONT SEE NEED FOR
ADVISORY IN THIS AREA.

.IND...NONE.
KWIATKOWSKI

In the hours before

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SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1140 AM EST WED OCT 24 2001

...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER SAYS THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF
SEVERE WEATHER IN CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO ENTER CENTRAL INDIANA FROM THE WEST IN
MID AFTERNOON...AND SPREAD TO THE OHIO BORDER IN A FEW HOURS. SOME
OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. MANY OF THEM COULD PRODUCE
DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON.

KWIATKOWSKI

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

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.