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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 275, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 28, 2006Jackson County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2006, 10:57 PM EDT for Jackson County, Indiana. It was in force for 13 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2006, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2006, 11:10 PM EDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2006-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 766 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2006-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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, 7:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 7:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
730 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

.AVIATION DISCUSSION...FOR 00Z TAFS. UPR LOW OVR NRN INDIANA AT 23Z
AND MOVING EAST. CONVECTION HAS CLEARED FROM ALL SITES EXCEPT KIND
AND WL CLEAR OUT OF KIND BY 01Z. WITH WET SOIL AT ALL SITES FROM
TODAYS RAIN AND LT WINDS OVERNIGHT...EXPECT VSBYS TO DROP TO MVFR AT
ALL SITES AFTER 08-09Z AND STAY THAT WAY UNTIL 12-13Z. THE UPR LOW
WL MOVE TO THE EAST AND HI PRES SHUD BLD IN BEHIND IT...KEEPING VFR
CONDITIONS THRU THE DAY AFTER THE PATCHY FOG BURNS OFF.

&&

.PREV 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.

&&

AVIATION...CP
PUBLIC...KWIATKOWSKI
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 17 hours 7 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJackson, Jennings43 min
Jun 28, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Shelby38 min
Jun 28, 10:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLawrence51 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2006Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.