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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Vermillion, Warren | 23 min |
| May 28, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion | 38 min |
| May 28, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Putnam | 31 min |
| May 28, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 28, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard, Tipton | 28 min |
| May 28, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe, Warren | 5 hr |
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.