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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 6, 2003Fountain County, Warren County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2003, 9:14 PM EST for Fountain County, Warren County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 6, 2003, 9:14 PM EST (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fountain County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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
Jul 6, 6:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 3257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 070214
SVRIND
INC045-171-070300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
913 PM EST SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EST

* AT 903 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST LEBANON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF DANVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN WARREN COUNTY AT 930 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.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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 4041 8755 4019 8754 4020 8716 4038 8713

$$

JK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 7:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	33 min
Jul 6, 7:47 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	118 min
Jul 6, 8:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warren	25 min
Jul 6, 8:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	39 min
Jul 6, 8:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	31 min
Jul 6, 10:05 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery, Tipton	3 hr
Jul 6, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	45 min
Jul 6, 10:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 6, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	66 min
Jul 6, 10:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Madison, Randolph, Tipton	62 min
Jul 6, 11:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	65 min
Jul 6, 11:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	33 min
Jul 6, 11:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry	62 min
Jul 7, 12:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton	60 min
Jul 7, 12:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison	65 min
Jul 7, 2:49 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Randolph	56 min
Jul 7, 12:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	43 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.