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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 8, 2003Delaware County, Madison County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2003, 12:40 AM EST for Delaware County, Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 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 8, 2003, 12:40 AM EST (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2003, 1:30 AM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Delaware County, IN, Madison County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 7, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 2731 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 080540
SVRIND
INC035-095-080630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1239 AM EST TUE JUL 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANDERSON
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MUNCIE

* UNTIL 130 AM EST

* AT 1236 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORESTES TO
  19 MILES WEST OF FRANKTON...OR FROM 12 MILES EAST OF KOKOMO TO     
  17 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ORESTES AT 115 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 4077 8585 4008 8583 3997 8585 3998 8563
          4013 8555 4009 8527 4037 8527

$$

BIELINSKI

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 1:00 PM EST, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:00 PM EST, 11 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
100 PM EST MON JUL 7 2003

THUNDERSTORMS AND FLOODING THE PROBLEM FOR TODAY.

SAME PATTERN DIFFERENT DAY...WILL AGAIN GO WITH PERSISTENCE AND
MODEL BLEND.  MORNING MCS LAYS OUTFLOW BOUNDARYS WHICH INITIATE
STORMS LATER IN THE AFTERNOON.  UPPER PATTERN HAS BEEN THE SAME AS
MOIST H85 AIR AND BOUNDARIES-A-PLENTY KEEP A LOT OF CENTRAL INDIANA
IN A WET PATTERN.

FLOODING IS STILL A BIG CONCERN.  FFG FOR THE NORTHERN 1/3 OF THE
CWA IS AROUND 1/2 INCH IN 1 HOUR WHICH THESE STORMS ARE MORE THAN
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AS PWATS ARE 140 PERCENT OF NORMAL.  WILL
CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH THRU TUES MORN.

A CHANGE IS ON THE HORIZON FOR THURSDAY/FRIDAY.  UPPER TROF AND
SHORT WAVE PASS OVER CENTRAL INDIANA EARLY ON THURS MORNING.  MODELS
DIFFER ON STRENGTH BUT BOTH POINT TO SIMILAR TIMING.  LAST SEVERAL
RUNS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY POINTING TO THURS SO WILL MENTION MORE
SO IN NEXT PACKAGE.  THURS NITE/FRI DRYS OUT A BIT AND WILL REMAIN
WARM BUT NOT AS HUMID.

.IND...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS.

SALLY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 11:04 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-081000-
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1104 PM EST MON JUL 7 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

...FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA THROUGH 4 AM
EST...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTH OF AND INCLUDING INDIANAPOLIS
THROUGH 4 AM EST...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ESPECIALLY NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 70. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH HEAVY
RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING.
SOME IF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND TUESDAY.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL...

HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND (ALL LOWER CASE)

KOCH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 10:45 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

INZ021-029>031-038>042-049-080400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1045 PM EST MON JUL 7 2003

TORNADO WATCH #670 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR...CARROLL...HOWARD...
TIPPECANOE...CLINTON...TIPTON...MADISON...DELAWARE...RANDOLPH...HAMIL
TON AND HENRY COUNTIES...HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A NEW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY.

Local storm report, Jul 8, 12:28 AM EST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1228 AM EST TUE JUL 08 2003

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1151 PM    2 N LAFAYETTE             IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/07/03   TIPPECANOE                     TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF.

NIELD

Local storm report, Jul 8, 12:40 AM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1240 AM EST TUE JUL 08 2003

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1210 AM    9 NE DELPHI               IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/03   CARROLL                        TREES DOWN

RK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 11:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	44 min
Jul 7, 11:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe	46 min
Jul 7, 11:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe	2 hr
Jul 8, 12:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery	45 min
Jul 8, 12:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard, Tipton	51 min
Jul 8, 12:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	41 min
Jul 8, 1:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Madison	23 hr
Jul 8, 1:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Madison	57 min
Jul 8, 1:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton	61 min
Jul 8, 1:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Randolph	45 min
Jul 8, 1:49 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Randolph	56 min
Jul 8, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	44 min
Jul 8, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	33 min
Jul 8, 5:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Howard, Tipton	5 hr
Jul 8, 5:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	24 min
Jul 8, 6:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	39 min
Jul 8, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	38 min
Jul 8, 6:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	46 min
Jul 8, 6:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 8, 6:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	26 min
Jul 8, 6:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.