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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 2006Delaware County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2006, 6:59 PM EDT for Delaware County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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: Jun 19, 2006, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2006, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Delaware County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Jun 19, 7:20 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	7 Nw Muncie, IN
Jun 19, 7:24 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Muncie, IN
Jun 19, 7:25 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Muncie, IN	MUNCIE MALL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 3 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 21 minutes after it went out.

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, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 192259
SVRIND
INC035-192345-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0231.060619T2259Z-060619T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MUNCIE

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 656 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GASTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  FAIRMOUNT...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MUNCIE AROUND 715 PM EDT...
  SELMA AROUND 725 PM EDT...

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 4040 8557 4020 8557 4008 8522 4038 8523

$$
DRT

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KIND 192313
SVSIND

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

INC035-192345-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-060619T2345Z/
DELAWARE-
712 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR DELAWARE COUNTY...

AT 708 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GASTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
MUNCIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SELMA AROUND 720 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4040 8557 4020 8557 4008 8522 4038 8523

$$
DRT

000 
WWUS53 KIND 192327
SVSIND

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

INC035-192345-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-060619T2345Z/
DELAWARE-
727 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR DELAWARE COUNTY...

AT 725 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MUNCIE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN DELAWARE COUNTY AROUND 740 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4040 8557 4020 8557 4008 8522 4038 8523

$$
DRT

000 
WWUS53 KIND 192341
SVSIND

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

INC035-192350-
/O.EXP.KIND.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-060619T2345Z/
DELAWARE-
740 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DELAWARE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 745
PM EDT...

WEAKENING STORMS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND 
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH OVER AND SOUTHEAST OF PRAIRIE CREEK RESERVOIR. 

LAT...LON 4040 8557 4020 8557 4008 8522 4038 8523

$$
DRT

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, 6:34 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:34 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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

.AVIATION...

FOR 20/0000Z TAFS...UPPER WAVE WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE TAF SITES
AT BEGINNING OF TAF VALID TIME. SCT TSRA WILL BE NEAR MOST TAF
SITES. WILL WATCH FOR CHANGES...BUT LOOKS LIKE VC MIGHT HANDLE IT AT
MOST SITES. TSRA WILL EXIT BY 02Z. NOT MUCH CLOUDINESS BEHIND WAVE
WITH SUBSIDENCE. MOIST LOW LEVELS LIKELY TO LEAD TO MVFR FOG
DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT AFT 06Z. ADDITIONAL TSRA POSSIBLE AFT 18Z TUE
WITH YET ANOTHER WAVE...SO HAVE PUT CB IN TAFS.

&&

.PREV 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.

&&

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

&&

AVIATION...CS
PUBLIC...JAS

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 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, 6:21 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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

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

0618 PM     HAIL             1 WSW FRANKTON          40.22N 85.79W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       MADISON            IN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:25 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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

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

0610 PM     HAIL             4 S ELWOOD              40.22N 85.84W
06/19/2006  E0.50 INCH       MADISON            IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

0610 PM     HAIL             4 S ELWOOD              40.22N 85.84W
06/19/2006  E0.88 INCH       MADISON            IN   AMATEUR RADIO

            SR 37 AND SR 128

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:33 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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

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

0630 PM     HAIL             4 WNW ANDERSON          40.12N 85.76W
06/19/2006  E1.75 INCH       MADISON            IN   AMATEUR RADIO

            200 N AND 600 W

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:36 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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

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

0628 PM     HAIL             ANDERSON                40.09N 85.69W
06/19/2006  E0.75 INCH       MADISON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

0628 PM     HAIL             8 NW ANDERSON           40.17N 85.80W
06/19/2006  E1.00 INCH       MADISON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:45 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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

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

0644 PM     HAIL             ANDERSON                40.09N 85.69W
06/19/2006  E0.75 INCH       MADISON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            AT EOC

&&

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:58 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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

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

0650 PM     HAIL             ANDERSON                40.09N 85.69W
06/19/2006  E0.50 INCH       MADISON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks	43 min
Jun 19, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	49 min
Jun 19, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion	45 min
Jun 19, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion	23 min
Jun 19, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Shelby	46 min
Jun 19, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Putnam	48 min
Jun 19, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	28 min
Jun 19, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	41 min
Jun 19, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	19 min
Jun 19, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Morgan	42 min
Jun 19, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	25 min
Jun 19, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	39 min
Jun 19, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	48 min
Jun 19, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tipton	32 min
Jun 19, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	38 min
Jun 19, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Martin	15 min
Jun 19, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	39 min
Jun 19, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll	22 min
Jun 19, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Madison	33 min
Jun 19, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	50 min
Jun 19, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	32 min
Jun 19, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	25 min
Jun 19, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	20 min
Jun 19, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Shelby	16 min
Jun 19, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen, Putnam	15 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.