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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 14, 2006Decatur County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2006, 8:46 PM EDT for Decatur County, Indiana. It was in force for 14 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: Apr 14, 2006, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2006, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Decatur County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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
Apr 14, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
Apr 14, 7:09 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 432 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 150046
SVRIND
INC031-150100-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0113.060415T0046Z-060415T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
846 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 844 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BATESVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

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 3945 8545 3940 8547 3932 8534 3944 8533

$$

KOCH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIND 150101
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
900 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

INC031-150110-
/O.EXP.KIND.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060415T0100Z/
DECATUR-
900 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 900 PM EDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 100 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 3945 8545 3940 8547 3932 8534 3944 8533

$$

NIELD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	55 min
Apr 14, 8:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery	63 min
Apr 14, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	47 min
Apr 14, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	65 min
Apr 14, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	39 min
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	44 min
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	44 min
Apr 14, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Shelby	42 min
Apr 14, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion, Shelby	38 min
Apr 14, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard	38 min
Apr 14, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	41 min
Apr 14, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush	52 min
Apr 14, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush	51 min
Apr 14, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Rush	31 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.