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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2011, 7:08 PM EDT for Delaware County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2011, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Delaware County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
588 WUUS53 KIND 232308 SVRIND INC035-240000- /O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0022.110323T2308Z-110324T0000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 708 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... YORKTOWN AROUND 715 PM EDT... BALL STATE UNIVERSITY AROUND 720 PM EDT... MUNCIE AROUND 725 PM EDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 32 AND 42. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 4009 8535 4009 8558 4025 8557 4025 8534 TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 273DEG 29KT 4016 8555 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ 77/TDUD
1 follow-up statement
955 WWUS53 KIND 232340 SVSIND SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 740 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 INC035-232350- /O.CAN.KIND.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-110324T0000Z/ DELAWARE- 740 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4009 8535 4009 8558 4025 8557 4025 8534 TIME...MOT...LOC 2340Z 273DEG 29KT 4015 8521 $$ PUMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Daviess | 32 min |
| Mar 23, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Johnson, Rush, Shelby | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush, Shelby | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush, Shelby | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 22 min |
| Mar 23, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 11 min |
| Mar 23, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Tipton | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Delaware | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Madison | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Fountain | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Vermillion | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Parke | 39 min |
| Mar 23, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Putnam | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Randolph | 49 min |
| Mar 23, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Madison | 49 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.