Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2003, 6:47 PM EST for Warren 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
- May 14, 2003, 6:47 PM EST (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2003, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 14, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
854
WUUS53 KIND 142347
SVRIND
INC171-150030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
647 PM EST WED MAY 14 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
* UNTIL 730 PM EST
* AT 644 PM CDT(644 PM EST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES WEST OF
STATE LINE CITY TO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINE VILLAGE...OR FROM 12
MILES NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE TO 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RENSSELAER...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
STATE LINE CITY AT 705 PM EST
WEST LEBANON AT 710 PM EST
WILLIAMSPORT AT 720 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 4048 8710 4038 8710 4034 8723 4015 8749
4048 8753
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain | 24 min |
| May 14, 6:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 23 min |
| May 14, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery | 30 min |
| May 14, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 32 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.