Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2004, 2:40 PM EST for Delaware County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2004, 2:40 PM EST (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Delaware County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:45 PM EST | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Sw Muncie, IN | |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EST | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Sw Muncie, IN | |
| May 27, 2:51 PM EST | HAIL 1 | Muncie, IN | |
| May 27, 2:51 PM EST | HAIL 1 | Muncie, IN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 27, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
473 WUUS53 KIND 271940 SVRIND INC035-272015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 240 PM EST THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MUNCIE * UNTIL 315 PM EST * AT 237 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR YORKTOWN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MUNCIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MUNCIE AROUND 245 PM EST SELMA AROUND 250 PM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4020 8556 4010 8553 4011 8522 4029 8523 $$ CO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence, Monroe | 29 min |
| May 27, 4:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 38 min |
| May 27, 4:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 32 min |
| May 27, 5:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 37 min |
| May 27, 5:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 32 min |
| May 27, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 38 min |
| May 27, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 51 min |
| May 27, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 51 min |
| May 27, 3:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Randolph | 48 min |
| May 27, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hamilton | 40 min |
| May 27, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 45 min |
| May 27, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton | 43 min |
| May 27, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry | 40 min |
| May 27, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Randolph | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 37 min |
| May 27, 4:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 43 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 45 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 35 min |
| May 27, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 45 min |
| May 27, 5:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene | 38 min |
| May 27, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence, Monroe | 25 min |
| May 27, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 65 min |
| May 27, 6:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 117 min |
| May 27, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan | 27 min |
| May 27, 6:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 29 min |
| May 27, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 34 min |
| May 27, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 45 min |
| May 27, 6:32 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 27, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 54 min |
| May 27, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 56 min |
| May 27, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Martin | 25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.