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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 6, 2001Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 4:31 PM EST for Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2001, 4:31 PM EST (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 6, 12:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KIND 062133
SVRIND
INC133-062200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
431 PM EST FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 428 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FILLMORE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF
  CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  BROAD PARK AT 440 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 3975 8672 3962 8688 3946 8670 3968 8670
TUCEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 2:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	41 min
Apr 6, 3:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke	50 min
Apr 6, 3:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	23 min
Apr 6, 3:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
Apr 6, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	13 min
Apr 6, 4:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan	24 min
Apr 6, 4:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	47 min

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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.