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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2001Carroll County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 5:05 PM EST for Carroll County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 19, 2001, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2001, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carroll County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 19, 5:18 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Delphi, IN
Jun 19, 5:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Delphi, 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 19, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

000 
WUUS53 KIND 192206
SVRIND

INC015-192245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 545 PM EST

* AT 500 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DELPHI...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DELPHI AT 515 PM EST
  YEOMAN AT 520 PM EST
  FLORA AT 535 PM EST
  CAMDEN AT 545 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.

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 4062 8679 4045 8663 4067 8636 4083 8657

JEH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 3:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	27 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

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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.