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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2006Martin County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2006, 4:56 PM CDT for Martin County, Indiana. It was in force for 15 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 19, 2006, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2006, 5:11 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 19, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 192156
SVRIND
INC101-192230-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0227.060619T2156Z-060619T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
456 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF PETERSBURG...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING
IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY REMEMBER...IF
YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3858 8679 3855 8693 3851 8693 3855 8677

$$

JK

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIND 192211
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
610 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

INC101-192220-
/O.CAN.KIND.SV.W.0227.000000T0000Z-060619T2230Z/
MARTIN-
510 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MARTIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3858 8679 3855 8693 3851 8693 3855 8677

$$

JK

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 1:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
220 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

.DISCUSSION...UPPR TROF CURRENTLY OVR THE GRTLKS XPCTD TO SWING SEWD
THRU THE LOCAL AREA THIS EVEN. AFTER THAT...RDGG WL BLD THRU THE TN
VLY...LEAVING AREA ALONG THE SRN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES AND PRONE TO
PERIODIC TSTM COMPLEXES. MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT OVERALL.
FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS.

IN THE NR TERM...OTHER THAN TSTM CLUSTER OVR THE CENTRAL PARTS OF
THE CWA...NOT MUCH GOING ON ELSEWHERE YET. TSTMS STILL APPEAR
ELEVATED SO FAR...BUT CONVECTIVE TEMPS SOUTH OF PRESENT ACTVTY JUST
ABOUT REACHED...SO ADDITIONAL SFC DVLPMNT LIKELY SOON. BASED ON
VARIOUS PARAMETERS...APPEARS BEST THREAT OF SVR SHOULD BE
ALONG/SOUTH OF CURRENT ACTVTY AS DEWPTS ARE FALLING OFF OVR THE NWRN
CWA. ADDITIONAL ACTVTY PSBL ALONG UPPR TROF AXIS CURRENTLY DROPPING
SEWD THRU SRN WI/NW IL AS WELL. ALL IN ALL...UPPR TROF PUSHES SEWD
OF THE AREA BY ABOUT 200300Z OR SO...SO PCPN THREAT SHOULD END BY
THAT TIME. WS510 IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE CWA TIL 200000Z.

IN THE LTR PDS...SFC FNT SETTLES SWD INTO THE AREA ON TUES...AND
MEANDERS AROUND IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
INSTABILITY PROGGED TO BE QUITE HIGH BY TUES AFT...ESPECIALLY OVR
THE SW ZONES...ALONG WITH STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES ABV. WL BRING IN
CHC POPS BY THE AFT HRS ALL AREAS...WITH THE HIGHEST POPS SW. WL
BROADBRUSH CHC POPS ALL AREAS INTO WED AS WELL AS OVERALL PTN POINTS
TO POTENTIAL TSTM COMPLEXES NEARBY FM TIME TO TIME.

LO LVL THICKNESSES AND TRAJECTORIES SUGGEST THE NGM MOS GUIDANCE
CONTINUES TO BE TOO COOL...ESPECIALLY WITH THE HIGHS IN THR LTR PDS.
WL BUMP UP THE NUMBERS IN THOSE PDS.

&&

.AVIATION...FOR 191800Z TAFS...MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE
THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THE FRONT
WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING. OUTSIDE OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR
WAS OVER INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. MVFR WITH ISOLATED IFR CONDITIONS
IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 00Z. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY HAVE WIND GUSTS OVER 50 KTS AND 3/4 INCH HAIL. MORE STABLE
CONDITIONS WILL MOVE IN AFTER FROPA AND WITH SUNSET THIS EVENING.
DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN LIMITING FOG FORMATION TO MVFR LEVELS AROUND
SUNRISE.

.IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

AVIATION...HAINES
PUBLIC...JAS

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
442 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-202045-
CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-
BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE-
PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-
JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-
DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-
342 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2006 /442 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS
LARGE HAIL
LIGHTNING
FLASH FLOODING
ISOLATED TORNADOS

AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH 1100 PM EDT OR 1000 PM CDT

DISCUSSION:

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN
COMBINATION WITH THE WARM HUMID AIR IN PLACE ACROSS CENTRAL
INDIANA WILL GENERATE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

A VERY ACTIVE PATTERN FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEK.
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EVERY DAY FROM TUESDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. WHILE IT REMAINS TOO EARLY TO KNOW MANY
DETAILS ON THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WEDNESDAY APPEARS TO
BE THE DAY THAT STORMS WOULD BE MOST LIKELY TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ACTIVATION SHOULD BE ONGOING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL
LOWERCASE)

PUMA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 2:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
317 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0305 PM     HAIL             GOSPORT                 39.35N 86.67W
06/19/2006  E1.75 INCH       OWEN               IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

0309 PM     HAIL             MARTINSVILLE            39.42N 86.42W
06/19/2006  E0.75 INCH       MORGAN             IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

0312 PM     HAIL             MARTINSVILLE            39.42N 86.42W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       MORGAN             IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

0311 PM     HAIL             6 N SPENCER             39.37N 86.77W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       OWEN               IN   CO-OP OBSERVER

0200 PM     TSTM WND DMG     10 NW SHELBYVILLE       39.63N 85.91W
06/19/2006                   SHELBY             IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MANY TREES DOWN

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
349 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0250 PM     HAIL             ELLETTSVILLE            39.23N 86.62W
06/19/2006  E1.25 INCH       MONROE             IN   AMATEUR RADIO

0313 PM     TSTM WND DMG     9 WSW SHELBYVILLE       39.47N 85.93W
06/19/2006                   SHELBY             IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN MANILLA AND HOMER

0313 PM     TSTM WND DMG     8 S SHELBYVILLE         39.41N 85.78W
06/19/2006                   SHELBY             IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN MILROY

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
420 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     TSTM WND DMG     9 NE NASHVILLE          39.30N 86.12W
06/19/2006                   BROWN              IN   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            TREES DOWNED ON SWEETWATER TRAIL.

0355 PM     HAIL             COLUMBUS                39.21N 85.91W
06/19/2006  E0.50 INCH       BARTHOLOMEW        IN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
445 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0344 PM     HAIL             BLOOMINGTON             39.17N 86.52W
06/19/2006  M0.75 INCH       MONROE             IN   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:07 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
507 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0501 PM     HAIL             MEDORA                  38.82N 86.17W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       JACKSON            IN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:10 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
510 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0506 PM     HAIL             MEDORA                  38.82N 86.17W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       JACKSON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

&&

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	43 min
Jun 19, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	49 min
Jun 19, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	45 min
Jun 19, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	23 min
Jun 19, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Shelby	46 min
Jun 19, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Putnam	48 min
Jun 19, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	28 min
Jun 19, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	41 min
Jun 19, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	19 min
Jun 19, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Morgan	42 min
Jun 19, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	25 min
Jun 19, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	39 min
Jun 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	48 min
Jun 19, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tipton	32 min
Jun 19, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	38 min
Jun 19, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	39 min
Jun 19, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	22 min
Jun 19, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Madison	33 min
Jun 19, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	50 min
Jun 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware	46 min
Jun 19, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
Jun 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	25 min
Jun 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	20 min
Jun 19, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Shelby	16 min
Jun 19, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen, Putnam	15 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.