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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 28, 2011Fountain County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2011, 3:08 PM EDT for Fountain 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
May 28, 2011, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Fountain County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

484 
WWUS83 KIND 281908
SPSIND

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
308 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2011

INZ028-035-043-281945-
FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-WARREN-
308 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR FOUNTAIN...NORTHWESTERN
VERMILLION AND SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

AT 306 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TILTON...OR NEAR DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
GESSIE AND STATE LINE CITY AROUND 315 PM EDT...
FOSTER AND PERRYSVILLE AROUND 320 PM EDT...
COVINGTON AROUND 325 PM EDT...
VEEDERSBURG AROUND 330 PM EDT...
NEWTOWN...MELLOTT AND HILLSBORO AROUND 340 PM EDT...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4023 8754 4031 8709 4002 8710 4002 8754
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 259DEG 41KT 4012 8762

$$

AB/JH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Vermillion, Warren23 min
May 28, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion38 min
May 28, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo45 min
May 28, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hendricks, Putnam31 min
May 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hamilton31 min
May 28, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Howard, Tipton28 min
May 28, 7:25 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningINDCarroll, Tippecanoe, Warren5 hr

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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.