Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Nov 6, 2005, 4:04 AM EST for Brown County, Monroe County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 6, 2005, 4:04 AM EST (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2005, 4:30 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brown County, IN, Monroe County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 4:20 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Ellettsville, IN | TREES DOWN |
| Nov 6, 4:33 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 7 S Martinsville, IN | TREES, LIMBS DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 6, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIND 060903 TORIND INC013-105-060930- /O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0039.051106T0904Z-051106T0930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 404 AM EST SUN NOV 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON * UNTIL 430 AM EST * AT 401 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BLOOMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY AROUND 420 AM 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 AM EST SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM EST SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA. LAT...LON 3919 8667 3905 8652 3933 8613 3933 8656 $$ KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 1:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 42 min |
| Nov 6, 1:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vigo | 42 min |
| Nov 6, 1:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 36 min |
| Nov 6, 1:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 40 min |
| Nov 6, 1:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Parke, Putnam | 66 min |
| Nov 6, 1:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more | 63 min |
| Nov 6, 2:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Tipton | 44 min |
| Nov 6, 2:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Morgan and 1 more | 62 min |
| Nov 6, 2:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush, Shelby | 63 min |
| Nov 6, 2:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Daviess, Greene, Johnson, Knox, Monroe and 2 more | 61 min |
| Nov 6, 3:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Monroe, Owen, Sullivan | 49 min |
| Nov 6, 3:25 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock and 10 more | 11 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 43 min |
| Nov 6, 3:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 37 min |
| Nov 6, 5:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush | 21 min |
| Nov 6, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 20 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2005Every tornado warning in 2005Tornadoes in 2005
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.