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Freezing Rain Advisory 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN

December 9, 200713 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 9, 2007, 1:52 PM EST for 13 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 9, 2007, 1:52 PM EST (18:52 UTC)
Expired
Dec 9, 2007, 8:12 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN

Counties Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Madison County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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 12:00Z on 2007-12-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 2007-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
369 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 8, 5:45 PM EST, 20 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 5:45 PM EST, 20 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 9, 6:26 AM ESTIce Storm WarningINDBoone, Carroll, Clinton, Delaware, Fountain, Hamilton and 9 more7 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Indiana, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007

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.