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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 10, 2004Fountain County, Vermillion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 3:28 PM EST for Fountain County, Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 10, 2004, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

185 
WFUS53 KIND 102041 CCA
TORIND
INC045-165-102115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...RE-TRANSMITTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
327 PM EST THU JUN 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 322 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF
  CAYUGA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CAYUGA AROUND 355 PM EST
  PERRYSVILLE AROUND 400 PM EST
  COVINGTON AROUND 410 PM EST
  KINGMAN AROUND 415 PM EST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4013 8756 3992 8756 3996 8712 4026 8717

$$

HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion	48 min
Jun 10, 3:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion	34 min
Jun 10, 3:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke	33 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke	48 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	49 min
Jun 10, 6:02 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks	43 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	30 min
Jun 10, 6:48 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.