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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 5:50 PM EST for Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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
- May 1, 2003, 5:50 PM EST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Randolph County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
314 WUUS53 KIND 012250 SVRIND INC135-012330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 550 PM EST THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 630 PM EST * AT 546 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MODOC...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MUNCIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FARMLAND AT 555 PM EST WINCHESTER AT 605 PM EST RIDGEVILLE AT 610 PM EST SARATOGA AT 615 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 4022 8523 3996 8515 4016 8477 4050 8480 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 44 min |
| May 1, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 51 min |
| May 1, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 1, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 34 min |
| May 1, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 1, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 20 min |
| May 1, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry | 42 min |
| May 1, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 29 min |
| May 1, 5:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware | 19 min |
| May 1, 6:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Randolph | 28 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.