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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 3, 2004Howard County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2004, 5:38 PM EST for Howard County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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 3, 2004, 5:38 PM EST (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2004, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 3, 12:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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.

000 
WUUS53 KIND 032238
SVRIND
INC067-032330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
538 PM EST SAT JUL 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 536 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HOWARD
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KOKOMO...AND MOVING NORTH AT
  40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN HOWARD COUNTY AROUND 550 PM EST

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 4045 8636 4042 8614 4084 8613 4081 8637

$$

CO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 2:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	50 min
Jul 3, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	41 min
Jul 3, 2:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	53 min
Jul 3, 3:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke	60 min
Jul 3, 3:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	55 min
Jul 3, 3:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	44 min
Jul 3, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	45 min
Jul 3, 4:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Marion	42 min
Jul 3, 6:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Madison	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.