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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 5, 2001Brown County, Jackson County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:56 PM EST for Brown County, Jackson County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2001, 6:56 PM EST (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brown County, IN, Jackson County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 5, 7:20 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Nashville, 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
Jun 5, 3:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 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.

000 
WUUS53 KIND 052356
SVRIND
INC013-071-060030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
656 PM EST TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 651 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES NORTH OF BEDFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NASHVILLE AT 715 PM EST
  MEDORA AT 725 PM EST
  BROWNSTOWN AT 730 PM EST

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. STAY AWAY FROM FLOODED AREAS.

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

$$
HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	52 min
Jun 5, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Sullivan	41 min
Jun 5, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Martin	31 min
Jun 5, 5:25 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Sullivan	65 min
Jun 5, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	64 min
Jun 5, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene	17 min
Jun 5, 6:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	39 min
Jun 5, 6:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Martin	39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.