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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 22, 2004Knox County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2004, 3:01 PM EST for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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 22, 2004, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2004, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Knox County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1619 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 222001
SVRIND
INC083-222045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
301 PM EST THU JUL 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VINCENNES

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 257 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VINCENNES...OR
  ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF VINCENNES...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MONROE CITY AROUND 310 PM EST
  WHEATLAND AROUND 315 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 3881 8755 3842 8773 3844 8725 3881 8727

$$
DRT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 7:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe, Warren	54 min
Jul 21, 7:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke	40 min
Jul 21, 7:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	32 min
Jul 21, 7:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	51 min
Jul 21, 7:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke	48 min
Jul 21, 8:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	57 min
Jul 21, 8:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton	39 min
Jul 21, 8:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	65 min
Jul 21, 8:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	58 min
Jul 21, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	35 min
Jul 21, 9:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan, Putnam	66 min
Jul 21, 9:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion	80 min
Jul 22, 2:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	38 min
Jul 22, 3:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	52 min
Jul 22, 3:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	41 min
Jul 22, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Monroe	26 min
Jul 22, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson	32 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.