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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 5, 2003Fountain County, Montgomery County, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 3:53 PM EST for Fountain County, Montgomery County, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 5, 2003, 3:53 PM EST (20:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fountain County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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.

000 
WFUS53 KIND 052053
TORIND
INC045-107-157-052130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
354 PM EST SAT JUL 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHERN TIPPECANOE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 430 PM EST

* AT 349 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WINGATE...
  OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEW RICHMOND AT 400 PM EST
  LINDEN AT 410 PM EST
  CLARKS HILL AT 430 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 4026 8715 4007 8713 4012 8671 4035 8671

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	45 min
Jul 4, 11:59 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Howard, Madison, Randolph, Tipton	2 hr
Jul 5, 1:43 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll	17 min
Jul 5, 3:00 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Delaware, Howard, Madison, Randolph and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 5, 8:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe, Tipton	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	29 min
Jul 5, 4:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	36 min
Jul 5, 4:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone	37 min
Jul 5, 5:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion	41 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Johnson, Madison, Shelby	35 min
Jul 5, 6:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	24 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.