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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 10, 2003Decatur County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2003, 1:15 PM EST for Decatur County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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 10, 2003, 1:15 PM EST (18:15 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Decatur County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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 10, 8:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

197 
WUUS53 KIND 101815
SVRIND
INC031-101900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
115 PM EST SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM EST

* AT 113 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF GREENSBURG TO
  17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. PAUL...OR FROM 18 MILES EAST OF
  SHELBYVILLE TO 8 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GREENSBURG AT 125 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 3917 8555 3921 8568 3943 8563 3944 8531
          3920 8546 3917 8550

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	45 min
May 9, 10:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	32 min
May 9, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess	36 min
May 9, 11:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	28 min
May 9, 11:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Martin	26 min
May 9, 11:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	36 min
May 9, 11:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess	35 min
May 10, 12:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	40 min
May 10, 12:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	31 min
May 10, 1:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence	47 min
May 10, 1:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery	36 min
May 10, 1:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	47 min
May 10, 2:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	29 min
May 10, 2:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	46 min
May 10, 3:36 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Randolph	24 min
May 10, 9:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion	29 min
May 10, 9:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke	32 min
May 10, 9:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion	31 min
May 10, 9:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke	49 min
May 10, 10:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	50 min
May 10, 10:23 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Montgomery, Putnam	52 min
May 10, 10:32 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	118 min
May 10, 10:47 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Montgomery	118 min
May 10, 10:51 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Putnam	114 min
May 10, 10:51 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Vigo	39 min
May 10, 10:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	64 min
May 10, 11:08 AM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay	52 min
May 10, 11:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	61 min
May 10, 11:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen, Putnam	48 min
May 10, 11:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Vigo	27 min
May 10, 11:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	42 min
May 10, 11:52 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton, Marion	23 min
May 10, 12:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	30 min
May 10, 12:17 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison	118 min
May 10, 12:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson	28 min
May 10, 12:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	41 min
May 10, 12:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Shelby	46 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.