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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2001Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 3:48 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 19, 2001, 3:48 PM EST (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2001, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 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.

472 
WUUS53 KIND 192048
SVRIND
INC157-192115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
348 PM EST TUE JUN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 339 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAFAYETTE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  LAFAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DAYTON AT 400 PM EST

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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.

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 4041 8702 4025 8690 4032 8672 4055 8672

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 5:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	40 min
Jun 19, 5:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess	29 min
Jun 19, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion	48 min
Jun 19, 6:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene	39 min
Jun 19, 6:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.