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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 30, 2004Lawrence County, Monroe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 8:56 PM EST for Lawrence County, Monroe County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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 30, 2004, 8:56 PM EST (01:56 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 9:45 PM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lawrence County, IN, Monroe County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 9:25 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Bloomington, IN	TREES DOWN/WINDOWS BROKEN IN HOME
May 30, 9:30 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Bedford, IN	POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN ALL OVER COUNTY.

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 30, 6:55 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 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.

921 
WUUS53 KIND 310156
SVRIND
INC093-105-310245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
854 PM EST SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BEDFORD
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON

* UNTIL 945 PM EST

* AT 849 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  OOLITIC...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BLOOMINGTON AROUND 910 PM EST
  BEDFORD AROUND 920 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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. BE PREAPRED FOR A TORNADO AT ANY 
TIME.

LAT...LON 3932 8668 3870 8669 3872 8636 3931 8643

$$
DRT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	59 min
May 30, 7:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion	50 min
May 30, 7:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	60 min
May 30, 7:29 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	5 hr
May 30, 7:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	58 min
May 30, 7:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vigo	50 min
May 30, 7:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Vigo	48 min
May 30, 7:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	61 min
May 30, 7:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Sullivan	39 min
May 30, 7:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	51 min
May 30, 7:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay	46 min
May 30, 8:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock	45 min
May 30, 8:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	41 min
May 30, 8:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton	64 min
May 30, 8:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Madison	47 min
May 30, 8:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Morgan	50 min
May 30, 8:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene	33 min
May 30, 8:36 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	4 hr
May 30, 8:39 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	51 min
May 30, 8:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	31 min
May 30, 8:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	28 min
May 30, 8:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	34 min
May 30, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	35 min
May 30, 9:21 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	5 hr
May 30, 9:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	29 min
May 30, 9:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	38 min
May 30, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jennings	45 min
May 30, 10:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.