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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 28, 2006Delaware County, Henry County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2006, 5:06 PM EDT for Delaware County, Henry County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2006, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Delaware County, IN, Henry County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 28, 5:19 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Muncie, IN	PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Jun 28, 5:24 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Yorktown, IN
Jun 28, 5:25 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Muncie, IN	DIME SIZE HAIL W SIDE OF MUNCIE/MORRISON AND RIVER ROAD

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 one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 18 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 282107
SVRIND
INC035-065-282145-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0266.060628T2106Z-060628T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
506 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR   
YORKTOWN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF MUNCIE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 
45   MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SELMA AROUND 515 PM EDT...
  BLOUNTSVILLE AROUND 520 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 4026 8552 4008 8559 3993 8555 3989 8524
      4021 8523

$$

JK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KIND 282128
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
527 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

INC035-065-282145-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-060628T2145Z/
DELAWARE-HENRY-
527 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN HENRY AND SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTIES...

AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MOORELAND...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF CAMBRIDGE CITY...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL OCCURRED WITH THIS STORM IN MUNCIE.

LAT...LON 4026 8552 4008 8559 3993 8555 3989 8524
      4021 8523

$$

JK

000 
WWUS53 KIND 282142
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
542 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

INC035-065-282152-
/O.EXP.KIND.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-060628T2145Z/
DELAWARE-HENRY-
542 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HENRY AND SOUTHERN
DELAWARE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 545 PM EDT...

STORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER THE AREA.

LAT...LON 4026 8552 4008 8559 3993 8555 3989 8524
      4021 8523

$$

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 28, 12:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1250 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

.DISCUSSION...

PROBLEM OF DAY IS POPS TONIGHT.

GUIDANCE CALLS FOR A MOSTLY DRY FORECAST...BUT I DONT BUY IT.
POWERFUL UPPER LOW AND COLD TEMP ANOMALY ALOFT STILL TO OUR WEST.
SUMMER SOLSTICE ONLY WEEK AGO. SPC HAS AREA OUTLOOKED FOR SLIGHT. I
COULD SEE SOMETHING FIRING LATE IN THE DAY AND CONTINUING INTO THE
FIRST PART OF TONIGHT. WILL GO CHC POPS.

AFTER THAT DRIER FOR A WHILE AS UPPER LOWS MOVES EAST AND SURFACE
HIGH BUILDS IN ACCORDING TO ALL MODELS. GFS LOOKS LIKE IT IS PICKING
UP SOME CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK...TYPICAL FOR IT...SO GOING WITH NAM
MOST OF THE TIME. UNDER THIS SCENARIO DRY BUT PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH
FRIDAY. SLGT CHC RAIN ENTERING NW FRIDAY NIGHT WITH WARM FRONT
TRYING TO DEVELOP.

AS WILL GO WITH NAM FOR MOISTURE...ALSO GOING WITH MET FOR TEMPS.
ACTUALLY THEY ARE ALL PRETTY CLOSE AND LOOK GOOD CONSIDERING
CONTINUITY UNTIL FRIDAY. AFTER THAN MAV DIGRESSES...POSSIBLY DUE TO
CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK ALREADY MENTIONED.
&&

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

&&

PUBLIC...KWIATKOWSKI

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 11 hours 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
550 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-291000-
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-
450 AM CDT WED JUN 28 2006 /550 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA TODAY AND
TONIGHT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT A FEW STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. THE
MOST FAVORABLE TIME FOR SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT APPEARS TO BE
FROM ABOUT 200 PM EDT...100 PM CDT...UNTIL ABOUT 1100 PM EDT...
1000 PM CDT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY. AT THIS POINT...SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

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

JAS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
404 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

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

0400 PM     HAIL             4 S FRANKFORT           40.22N 86.51W
06/28/2006  E0.50 INCH       CLINTON            IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PGRAY

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:11 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
411 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

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

0408 PM     HAIL             MARTINSVILLE            39.42N 86.42W
06/28/2006  M0.50 INCH       MORGAN             IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MARBLE SIZE HAIL/HEAVY RAIN

&&

PGRAY

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:25 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
425 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

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

0418 PM     HAIL             ZIONSVILLE              39.95N 86.27W
06/28/2006  E0.50 INCH       BOONE              IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PGRAY

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:01 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
501 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

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

0440 PM     HAIL             ELWOOD                  40.28N 85.84W
06/28/2006  E0.75 INCH       MADISON            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WATER OVR SR28 IN ELWOOD/PWR LINES DWN AT SR 37 AND CR
            1400N

&&

PGRAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion	41 min
Jun 28, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard	22 min
Jun 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown	25 min
Jun 28, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Putnam	29 min
Jun 28, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	28 min
Jun 28, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	47 min
Jun 28, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison	27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.