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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 10, 2004Johnson County, Shelby County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 8:14 PM EST for Johnson County, Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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, 8:14 PM EST (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Johnson County, IN, Shelby County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

776 
WFUS53 KIND 110114
TORIND
INC081-145-110200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE

* UNTIL 900 PM EST

* AT 807 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  FAIRLAND...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FAIRLAND AROUND 825 PM EST
  SHELBYVILLE AROUND 835 PM EST

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 3962 8605 3949 8607 3945 8566 3966 8567

$$

JK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	45 min
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, 8:39 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

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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.