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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 4:43 PM EST for Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 6, 2001, 4:43 PM EST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morgan County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:56 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Hall, IN | |
| Apr 6, 5:00 PM EST | Hail 1 | Monrovia, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIND 062144 SVRIND INC109-062230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 443 PM EST FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 530 PM EST * AT 438 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF LAKE HART...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BETHANY AT 500 PM EST MARTINSVILLE AT 505 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 3964 8661 3953 8669 3934 8637 3952 8626 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, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.