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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2006, 5:17 PM EDT for Brown County, Monroe County, Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- Apr 7, 2006, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brown County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 5:27 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Martinsville, IN | |
| Apr 7, 5:30 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Martinsville, IN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIND 072116 TORIND INC013-105-109-072145- /O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0031.060407T2117Z-060407T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 517 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHWESTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 511 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PARAGON... OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN MORGAN COUNTY AROUND 530 PM EDT RURAL EASTERN MORGAN COUNTY AROUND 540 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR INDIANA. LAT...LON 3941 8661 3923 8656 3929 8627 3951 8627 $$ KOCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KIND 072133 SVSIND SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 533 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006 INC013-105-109-072145- /O.CON.KIND.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-060407T2145Z/ BROWN-MONROE-MORGAN- 533 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE...NORTHWESTERN BROWN AND SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTIES... AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MARTINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR INDIANA. LAT...LON 3941 8661 3923 8656 3929 8627 3951 8627 $$ KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Putnam | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Marion, Montgomery, Putnam | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Madison, Marion | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush | 40 min |
| Apr 7, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 33 min |
| Apr 7, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion | 24 min |
| Apr 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Madison | 27 min |
| Apr 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 3:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 12 min |
| Apr 7, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 27 min |
| Apr 7, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Marion | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Howard | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Shelby | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 16 min |
| Apr 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 37 min |
| Apr 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 24 min |
| Apr 7, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush, Shelby | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 27 min |
| Apr 7, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Monroe, Owen | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Decatur | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Jennings | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 14 min |
| Apr 7, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Daviess, Jackson, Lawrence, Martin | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 40 min |
| Apr 7, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Rush | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 17 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.