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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 16, 2004Rush County, Shelby County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 8:38 PM EST for Rush County, Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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 16, 2004, 8:38 PM EST (01:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 9:30 PM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

269 
WFUS53 KIND 170138
TORIND
INC139-145-170230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
838 PM EST WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  EAST CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE

* UNTIL 930 PM EST

* AT 836 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  SHELBYVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RUSHVILLE AROUND 910 PM EST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3957 8583 3943 8576 3947 8531 3970 8537

$$

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 9:35 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Rush	55 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.