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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 5, 2003Boone County, Montgomery County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 4:24 PM EST for Boone County, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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, 4:24 PM EST (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Boone County, IN, Montgomery County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 052124
TORIND
INC011-107-052200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 419 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  CRAWFORDSVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DARLINGTON AT 435 PM EST
  THORNTOWN AT 455 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 4017 8701 3999 8698 4002 8649 4019 8651

$$

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, 3:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	37 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.