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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2001Greene County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 6:06 PM EST for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min. 3 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, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2001, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Greene County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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
Jun 19, 6:10 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Lyons, IN
Jun 19, 6:30 PM EST	Hail 1	Bloomfield, IN
Jun 19, 6:50 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Bloomfield, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 192307
SVRIND

INC055-192345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 603 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEWBERRY...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  VINCENNES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SWITZ CITY AT 615 PM EST
  BLOOMFIELD AT 625 PM EST
  WORTHINGTON AT 635 PM EST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

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 3894 8723 3891 8702 3906 8671 3917 8698

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, 5:05 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, 6:29 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.