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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 8:33 PM EST for Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 57 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, 8:33 PM EST (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2001, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Marion County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
701 WUUS53 KIND 200133 SVRIND INC097-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 833 PM EST TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS * UNTIL 930 PM EST * AT 827 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF CLERMONT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPEEDWAY AT 850 PM EST WYNNEDALE AT 900 PM EST SPRING HILL AT 905 PM EST NORTH CROWS NEST AT 910 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 3984 8634 3962 8634 3967 8599 3992 8603 DT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen, Putnam | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Shelby | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 8:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 8:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.