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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Indianapolis, IN

November 24, 2004Decatur County, Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 5:03 PM EST for Decatur County, Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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: Nov 24, 2004, 5:03 PM EST (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Decatur County, IN, Rush County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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
Nov 24, 2:25 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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.

000 
WFUS53 KIND 242203
TORIND
INC031-139-242230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
503 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DECATUR COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 459 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  GREENSBURG...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY AROUND 520 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3939 8569 3926 8553 3959 8502 3976 8522

$$

JEO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Jackson	37 min
Nov 24, 4:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Jackson	51 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.