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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 16, 2001Parke County, Vigo County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2001, 7:28 PM EST for Parke County, Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 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: May 16, 2001, 7:28 PM EST (00:28 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2001, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Parke County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
May 16, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 3005 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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.

801 
WUUS53 KIND 170029
SVRIND
INC121-167-170100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
728 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHEASTERN VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 723 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MECCA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROSEDALE AT 800 PM EST

GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FELL AT CLINTON AT 720 PM EST.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...GO INSIDE A STURDY 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 3977 8739 3961 8741 3947 8732 3964 8714

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion	20 min
May 16, 7:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	43 min
May 16, 7:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	46 min
May 16, 8:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
May 17, 8:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	35 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.