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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2011, 10:23 AM EDT for Brown County, Monroe County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 4, 2011, 10:23 AM EDT (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
Counties Brown County, IN, Monroe County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 4, 9:29 AM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 9:29 AM EDT, 54 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 513 AM EDT MON APR 4 2011 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-050915- 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- 513 AM EDT MON APR 4 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA TODAY. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...MAINLY THROUGH MIDDAY. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HOWEVER LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS WINDS MAY GUST TO AROUND 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. && 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, Apr 4, 4:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
446 AM EDT MON APR 04 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0420 AM TSTM WND DMG WILLIAMSPORT 40.29N 87.29W
04/04/2011 WARREN IN PUBLIC
HOUSE DAMAGED BY HIGH WINDS NEAR COUNTY ROAD 322 SOUTH
AND 900 WEST.
&&
JHSpecial weather statement, Apr 4, 4:52 AM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
452 AM EDT MON APR 4 2011
INZ021-029>031-036>039-040915-
BOONE-CARROLL-CLINTON-HAMILTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-TIPPECANOE-TIPTON-
452 AM EDT MON APR 4 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR BOONE...NORTHEASTERN
MONTGOMERY...NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON...TIPTON...CLINTON...EASTERN
TIPPECANOE...HOWARD AND CARROLL COUNTIES UNTIL 515 AM EDT...
AT 449 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF
MONTICELLO TO CRAWFORDSVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
BURLINGTON...THORNTOWN...FRANKFORT AND ADVANCE AROUND 500 AM EDT...
ULEN...MICHIGANTOWN AND LEBANON AROUND 505 AM EDT...
RUSSIAVILLE...KOKOMO...KIRKLIN...KEMPTON AND GALVESTON AROUND 510 AM
EDT...
INDIAN HEIGHTS AND SHERIDAN AROUND 515 AM EDT...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4071 8651 4070 8638 4058 8637 4058 8586
4050 8585 4002 8606 3998 8695 4075 8665
4075 8652
TIME...MOT...LOC 0852Z 274DEG 57KT 4071 8652 4006 8678
JHLocal storm report, Apr 4, 5:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
534 AM EDT MON APR 04 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0525 AM TSTM WND GST KOKOMO 40.48N 86.13W
04/04/2011 M54 MPH HOWARD IN AWOS
&&Local storm report, Apr 4, 8:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 4:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 4, 4:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery, Tipton | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 5:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tipton | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 5:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Madison, Tipton | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 5:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 14 min |
| Apr 4, 5:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison, Tipton | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 6:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware | 19 min |
| Apr 4, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 7:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 7:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 7:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Johnson, Morgan | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 7:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 22 min |
| Apr 4, 7:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush, Shelby | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 7:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 24 min |
| Apr 4, 10:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 12:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence, Martin | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 12:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Greene, Hancock, Henry and 7 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:14 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Shelby | 43 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:14 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 5 days |
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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.