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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 11, 2011Greene County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 7:05 PM EDT for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 11, 2011, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Greene County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 261 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 11, 6:48 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 6:48 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 5:34 AM EDT, 13 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:12 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Morgan	24 min
Jun 10, 11:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan	38 min
Jun 10, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	50 min
Jun 11, 12:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	51 min
Jun 11, 12:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	42 min
Jun 11, 1:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	43 min
Jun 11, 1:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Marion	43 min
Jun 11, 1:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion	40 min
Jun 11, 2:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison, Tipton	40 min
Jun 11, 2:15 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence	5 hr
Jun 11, 2:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox, Sullivan	54 min
Jun 11, 2:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	4 hr
Jun 11, 2:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Randolph	18 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Greene	48 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.