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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 6, 2001Fountain County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 3:22 PM EST for Fountain County, Indiana. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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: Apr 6, 2001, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fountain County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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
Apr 6, 3:30 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Kingman, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 12:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 062023
SVRIND
INC045-062045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
322 PM EST FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 322 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WALLACE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF
  CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WALLACE AT 335 PM EST

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 4008 8727 3996 8735 3997 8711 4008 8712

DRT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 2:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	41 min
Apr 6, 3:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke	50 min
Apr 6, 3:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
Apr 6, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	13 min
Apr 6, 4:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan	24 min
Apr 6, 4:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	29 min
Apr 6, 4:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	47 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.