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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 5, 2005Bartholomew County, Brown County, Johnson County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 5:52 PM EST for Bartholomew County, Brown County, Johnson County, Indiana. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2005, 5:52 PM EST (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Johnson County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 5, 1:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 
WUUS53 KIND 052252
SVRIND
INC005-013-081-052330-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0101.050605T2252Z-050605T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
552 PM EST SUN JUN 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  SOUTH CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 550 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRINCES LAKES...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PRINCES LAKES AROUND 610 PM EST

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3930 8634 3920 8631 3921 8598 3941 8600

$$

KOCH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIND 052315
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
615 PM EST SUN JUN 5 2005

INC013-052325-
/O.CAN.KIND.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-050605T2330Z/
BROWN-
615 PM EST SUN JUN 5 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

DIZE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SPEARSVILLE AT 557 PM EST.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST SUNDAY
EVENING FOR INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3935 8610 3921 8609 3921 8598 3941 8600

$$

INC005-081-052330-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-050605T2330Z/
BARTHOLOMEW-JOHNSON-
615 PM EST SUN JUN 5 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR
NORTHWESTERN BARTHOLOMEW AND SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTIES...

AT 612 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY...OR 
ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST SUNDAY
EVENING FOR INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3935 8610 3921 8609 3921 8598 3941 8600

$$

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe, Owen	26 min
Jun 5, 3:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	47 min
Jun 5, 3:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	46 min
Jun 5, 3:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	47 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Tipton	55 min
Jun 5, 4:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	41 min
Jun 5, 4:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	34 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Johnson	22 min
Jun 5, 5:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Madison	47 min
Jun 5, 5:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Shelby	27 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	36 min
Jun 5, 5:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Rush, Shelby	51 min
Jun 5, 6:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	36 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.