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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 10, 2004Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 7:15 PM EST for Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 5:55 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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: 1700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 10.7

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The text

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

066 
WFUS53 KIND 110015
TORIND
INC109-110100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
714 PM EST THU JUN 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 712 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LAKE
  HART...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BROOKLYN AROUND 720 PM EST

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1000 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3960 8663 3944 8660 3944 8630 3959 8633

$$

HAINES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	25 min
Jun 10, 7:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson	28 min
Jun 10, 8:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson, Shelby	46 min
Jun 10, 8:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	66 min
Jun 10, 9:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Vermillion, Warren	47 min
Jun 10, 10:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	54 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.