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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 14, 2003Boone County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2003, 8:35 PM EST for Boone 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 14, 2003, 8:35 PM EST (01:35 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2003, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Boone County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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 14, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

359 
WFUS53 KIND 150135
TORIND
INC011-150215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
835 PM EST WED MAY 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 833 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ADVANCE...
  OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEBANON AT 855 PM EST
  WHITESTOWN AT 910 PM EST
  ZIONSVILLE AT 915 PM EST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM. GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE OR USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT.

LAT...LON 4011 8626 3994 8626 3994 8668 4003 8669

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	44 min
May 14, 7:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Tippecanoe	61 min
May 14, 7:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton	47 min
May 14, 8:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	47 min
May 14, 8:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	66 min
May 14, 8:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	65 min
May 14, 9:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	42 min
May 14, 9:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan	61 min
May 14, 9:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Shelby	58 min
May 14, 10:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	57 min
May 14, 10:09 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Morgan	66 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.