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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 18, 2006Vermillion County, Vigo County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 8:28 PM EDT for Vermillion County, Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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: Jul 18, 2006, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2006, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Jul 18, 8:30 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Clinton, IN
Jul 18, 8:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	5 Nw Terre Haute, IN	MEASURED 35 MPH WIND GUST...3 INCH LIVE TREE LIMBS DOWN
Jul 18, 8:50 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	4 Nw Terre Haute, IN
Jul 18, 8:50 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	5 N Terre Haute, IN	VIA TERRE HAUTE MEDIA

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

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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 3384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIND 190028
SVRIND
INC165-167-190115-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0290.060719T0028Z-060719T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
828 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
  NORTHERN VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 820 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAIRVIEW PARK...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  UNIVERSAL AROUND 835 PM EDT...
  NORTH TERRE HAUTE AROUND 900 PM EDT...
  TERRE HAUTE AROUND 915 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 3971 8740 3971 8745 3960 8754 3938 8754
      3934 8726 3951 8725 3952 8722 3961 8722
      3961 8740

$$

PUMA

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KIND 190101
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
901 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

INC165-190111-
/O.CAN.KIND.SV.W.0290.000000T0000Z-060719T0115Z/
VERMILLION-
901 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VERMILLION COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3959 8740 3961 8746 3960 8754 3938 8754
      3935 8732 3944 8732 3952 8734 3957 8736
      3961 8740

$$

INC167-190115-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0290.000000T0000Z-060719T0115Z/
VIGO-
901 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL VIGO COUNTY...

AT 854 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST TERRE HAUTE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH.

LAT...LON 3959 8740 3961 8746 3960 8754 3938 8754
      3935 8732 3944 8732 3952 8734 3957 8736
      3961 8740

$$

PUMA

000 
WWUS53 KIND 190115
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
915 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

INC167-190125-
/O.EXP.KIND.SV.W.0290.000000T0000Z-060719T0115Z/
VIGO-
915 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL VIGO COUNTY EXPIRES AT
915 PM EDT...

THE STORM HAS MOVED WEST AND EXITED VIGO COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3959 8740 3961 8746 3960 8754 3938 8754
      3935 8732 3944 8732 3952 8734 3957 8736
      3961 8740

$$

PUMA

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 Jul 18, 6:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 6:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
655 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

.AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 190000Z TAF ISSUANCE. SFC WND SHFT JUST
ABOUT TO THE IND TERMINAL WITH XTRAPOLATION SUGGESTING PASSAGE THERE
ABOUT 182330Z WITH WNDS SHFTG TO AROUND 060 DEGREES BASED ON SFC OBS
N OF THE BOUNDARY. SCT CONVECTION DVLPG IN THE VCNTY OF WND
SHFT...MAINLY AROUND THE IND TERMINAL. MOST UNSTABLE AIR ALONG WITH
BETTER CONVERGENCE EXISTS OVR THE WRN PARTS OF THE STATE...SO
ADDITIONAL CONVECTION MAY DVLP FARTHER SW WITH TIME AS BOUNDARY SAGS
IN THAT DIRECTION...ALTHOUGH ATTM NOTHING APPEARS IMMINENT. UPPR
SUPPORT IS WK...SO CONVECTIVE THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH OVR THE HUF/BMG
TERMINALS BY 190300Z...WITH THREAT ENDG AT THE IND TERMINAL AROUND
190100Z WITH PASSAGE OF WND SHFT.

CROSSOVER TEMPS SUGGEST FOG DVLPMNT TONIGHT...WITH AREAS OF MVFR
VSBYS DVLPG AFTER 190300Z.

&&

.DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS IS ON TSRA CHANCES TONIGHT AND ON
THURSDAY/FRIDAY...AND THEN ON TEMPS ON THURSDAY.

AT 18Z WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA BACK INTO
CENTRAL IL. DRIER AIR WAS WELL BEHIND THE FRONT. SCT TSRA HAD
DEVELOPED ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN FORECAST AREA /FA/.

GFS SUFFERS FROM USUAL FEEDBACK ISSUES AT TIMES THIS FORECAST
CYCLE...MOST NOTABLY THU NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. OTHERWISE MODELS
HAVE SIMILAR IDEAS AND WILL USE A BLEND.

FRONT WILL SINK SOUTH TONIGHT AS IT WASHES OUT. UPPER SUPPORT IS
WEAK...AS IS SURFACE CONVERGENCE. THUS FEEL CHANCES FOR CONVECTION
ARE SMALL AT BEST...AND WILL CONTINUE DRY FORECAST AFTER 00Z.
WITH DRIER AIR LAGGING WELL BEHIND FRONT...BELIEVE DRIER AIR WILL NOT
MAKE IT AS FAR SOUTH AS MAV LOW TEMPERATURES WOULD SUGGEST. THUS
WILL GO CLOSER TO WARMER MET NUMBERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN FA.
ELSEWHERE WILL BLEND THE COOLER MAV AND WARM MET NUMBERS.

ON WEDNESDAY UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO INDIANA. CU RULE SHOWS
SOME SCATTERED TO BROKEN CONDITIONS...BUT FEEL STILL ENOUGH SUN TO
PUSH TEMPERATURES TO MAV NUMBERS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S.

MCS WILL DEVELOP WELL TO THE NW OF INDIANA WED NIGHT IN STRONG
WARM ADVECTION. THIS SHOULD STAY TO THE N OF THE FA BUT CLOUDS
WILL SPILL OVER FOR THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THESE CLOUDS WILL HELP
KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM REACHING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
NEVERTHELESS...READINGS WILL STILL PEAK IN THE LOW TO MID 90S
AGAIN AS 850 TEMPERATURES RISE TO NEAR 22-24C. COLD FRONT WILL
ARRIVE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND COULD SPARK SOME STORMS. BEST
CHANCE FOR STORMS LOOK TO BE AS THE FRONT SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH
THURSDAY NIGHT ALONG WITH AN UPPER WAVE.

FRONT LOOKS TO LINGER INTO FRIDAY SO HAVE ADDED POPS...MAINLY
DURING THE MORNING. AS STATED EARLIER DON/T TRUST GFS SOLUTION
INTO SATURDAY. 00Z ECMWF KEEPS FRONT FARTHER SOUTH AS WELL. WILL
THUS KEEP DRY FORECAST FOR THE MOMENT.

&&

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

&&

PUBLIC...CS
AVIATION...JAS

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:24 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
324 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-191930-
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-
224 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2006 /324 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNSET. A FEW STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT.

HEAT INDEX VALUES NEAR 100 ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. SOME STORMS MAY
BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS ON THURSDAY.

HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO THURSDAY WITH AFTERNOON
HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
SPOTTERS MAY ALSO BE NEEDED ON THURSDAY.

&&

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:42 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
742 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0721 PM     TSTM WND DMG     8 S INDIANAPOLIS        39.66N 86.15W
07/18/2006                   MARION             IN   AMATEUR RADIO

            AT COUNTY LINE ROAD AND COMBS ROAD ALUMINUM AWNING BLOWN
            OVER

&&

ETERRELL

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:45 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
745 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0636 PM     HAIL             9 SE INDIANAPOLIS       39.68N 86.03W
07/18/2006  E0.88 INCH       MARION             IN   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

ETERRELL

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:02 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
802 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0755 PM     HAIL             NEW WHITELAND           39.56N 86.10W
07/18/2006  E1.00 INCH       JOHNSON            IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

ETERRELL

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:03 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
803 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0800 PM     TSTM WND GST     FRANKLIN                39.49N 86.06W
07/18/2006  E0 MPH           JOHNSON            IN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE LIMBS DOWN

&&

ETERRELL

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:22 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
822 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0812 PM     HAIL             6 NW FRANKLIN           39.55N 86.14W
07/18/2006  E0.88 INCH       JOHNSON            IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

ETERRELL

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:25 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
825 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

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

0758 PM     TSTM WND DMG     9 NW GREENCASTLE        39.73N 86.96W
07/18/2006                   PUTNAM             IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MEASURED 50 MPH WIND GUST...LARGE TREEN LIMBS DOWN.

&&

ETERRELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 8:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan	42 min
Jul 18, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke	39 min
Jul 18, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe, Morgan	51 min
Jul 18, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	30 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.