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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 23, 2004Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 9:35 PM EST for Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2004, 9:35 PM EST (02:35 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Putnam County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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 23, 5:30 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 13.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 240235
SVRIND
INC133-240315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
935 PM EST SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EST

* AT 934 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENCASTLE...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES EAST OF TERRE HAUTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GREENCASTLE AROUND 955 PM EST
  CLOVERDALE AROUND 1000 PM EST

LAT...LON 3963 8703 3947 8701 3947 8674 3966 8673

$$

OMITT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush, Shelby	40 min
May 23, 8:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	37 min
May 23, 9:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	47 min
May 23, 9:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	40 min
May 23, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	38 min
May 23, 10:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	47 min
May 23, 10:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush	43 min
May 23, 10:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Shelby	35 min
May 23, 10:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Randolph	37 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.