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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 5, 2001Parke County, Vermillion County, Vigo County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 12:20 AM EST for Parke County, Vermillion County, Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 5, 2001, 12:20 AM EST (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 12:45 AM EST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Parke County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 311 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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 050522
SVRIND

INC121-165-167-050545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1220 AM EST THU JUL 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE

* UNTIL 1245 AM EST

* AT 1218 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER UNIVERSAL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  TERRE HAUTE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLINTON AT 1225 AM EST
  NORTH TERRE HAUTE AT 1230 AM EST
  SEELYVILLE AT 1235 AM EST
  RILEY AT 1240 AM 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 3985 8754 3935 8758 3931 8728 3978 8712

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	29 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.