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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN

March 20, 2003Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2003, 2:37 PM EST for Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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: Mar 20, 2003, 2:37 PM EST (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2003, 3:20 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Mar 20, 2:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 201937
SVRIND
INC109-202020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
235 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 320 PM EST

* AT 228 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARAGON...OR ABOUT 20
  MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE HART AT 300 PM EST

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT 
OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.

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 3950 8667 3938 8657 3958 8628 3961 8651
          3959 8663

$$
BIELINSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 1:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	32 min
Mar 20, 1:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	30 min
Mar 20, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	44 min
Mar 20, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tipton	45 min
Mar 20, 3:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	44 min
Mar 20, 4:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	34 min
Mar 20, 4:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	35 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.