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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 10, 2003Parke County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 9:56 AM EST for Parke County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 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, 9:56 AM EST (14:56 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Parke County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

686 
WFUS53 KIND 101456
TORIND
INC121-101545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
956 AM EST SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 954 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  BLOOMINGDALE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MARSHALL AT 1010 AM EST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 3961 8739 3995 8742 3996 8711 3988 8711
          3987 8703 3961 8704

$$

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, 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
May 10, 1:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	45 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.