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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 21, 2005Hancock County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2005, 10:41 PM EST for Hancock County, Indiana. It was in force for 17 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: Jul 21, 2005, 10:41 PM EST (03:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2005, 10:58 PM EST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hancock County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 21, 9:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIND 220340
TORIND
INC059-220415-
/O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0027.050722T0341Z-050722T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1041 PM EST THU JUL 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1115 PM EST

* AT 1037 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  GREENFIELD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST FRIDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3982 8583 3970 8581 3971 8566 3984 8561

$$
SALLY

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIND 220358
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1058 PM EST THU JUL 21 2005

INC059-220408-
/O.CAN.KIND.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-050722T0415Z/
HANCOCK-
1058 PM EST THU JUL 21 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WIND 
WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

LAT...LON 3982 8583 3970 8581 3971 8566 3984 8561

$$

SALLY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	35 min
Jul 21, 8:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton	49 min
Jul 21, 9:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clay, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam and 2 more	40 min
Jul 21, 9:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	32 min
Jul 21, 9:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks	30 min
Jul 21, 9:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Marion	42 min
Jul 21, 9:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan	46 min
Jul 21, 10:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison, Shelby	46 min
Jul 21, 10:29 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby	46 min
Jul 21, 10:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Marion	118 min
Jul 21, 10:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Monroe	37 min
Jul 21, 10:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	40 min
Jul 21, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings, Rush	51 min
Jul 21, 10:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence, Monroe	46 min
Jul 21, 11:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin	50 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.