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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 12, 2002Monroe County, Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2002, 4:43 PM EST for Monroe County, Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 12, 2002, 4:43 PM EST (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 12, 4:50 PM EST	Hail 1	Bloomington, IN	Hail covered the ground

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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 122143
SVRIND
INC105-109-122215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
443 PM EST FRI APR 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 441 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ELLETTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MARTINSVILLE AT 515 PM EST

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND 
MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 3921 8674 3909 8658 3940 8633 3946 8646

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 3:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion, Warren	40 min
Apr 12, 3:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Owen	43 min
Apr 12, 4:31 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	59 min
Apr 12, 4:38 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	112 min
Apr 12, 4:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	39 min
Apr 12, 5:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	29 min
Apr 12, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson	43 min
Apr 12, 5:38 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more	67 min
Apr 12, 5:41 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 12, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Shelby	30 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.