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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2002, 1:08 PM EST for Hendricks County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2002, 1:08 PM EST (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2002, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hendricks County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 12:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
687 WUUS53 KIND 201808 SVRIND INC063-201845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 108 PM EST FRI SEP 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 145 PM EST * AT 104 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLAYTON AT 115 PM EST PLAINFIELD AT 120 PM EST BROWNSBURG AT 130 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME. 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 3962 8663 3991 8642 3967 8634 3962 8648 DRT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 7:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 25 min |
| Sep 20, 11:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Knox | 32 min |
| Sep 20, 11:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess | 51 min |
| Sep 20, 11:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 25 min |
| Sep 20, 12:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Owen | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 12:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene | 30 min |
| Sep 20, 12:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 36 min |
| Sep 20, 12:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan, Owen | 33 min |
| Sep 20, 1:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 1:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson, Marion | 38 min |
| Sep 20, 1:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock | 44 min |
| Sep 20, 1:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 1:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Marion | 17 min |
| Sep 20, 2:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Madison | 54 min |
| Sep 20, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 23 min |
| Sep 20, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown | 66 min |
| Sep 20, 2:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 3:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush | 28 min |
| Sep 20, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings | 42 min |
| Sep 20, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 41 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.