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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 15, 20117 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2011, 7:21 AM EDT for 7 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 39 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 15, 2011, 7:21 AM EDT (11:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

Counties Carroll County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Parke County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -693 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 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 15, 6:25 AM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:25 AM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
605 AM EDT WED JUN 15 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 AM     HAIL             10 NE SULLIVAN          39.20N 87.28W
06/15/2011  E0.25 INCH       SULLIVAN           IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            NEAR HAYMERA

&&

JH

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:21 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
721 AM EDT WED JUN 15 2011

INZ021-028>030-035-036-043-044-151200-
CARROLL-CLINTON-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-PARKE-TIPPECANOE-VERMILLION-
WARREN-
721 AM EDT WED JUN 15 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR WESTERN CLINTON...CARROLL...
FOUNTAIN...MONTGOMERY...PARKE...TIPPECANOE...VERMILLION AND WARREN
COUNTIES UNTIL 800 AM EDT...

AT 719 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF
WOLCOTT TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF REDMON...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
CAYUGA AROUND 730 AM EDT...
LODI...VEEDERSBURG...NEWPORT AND DANA AROUND 735 AM EDT...
YEDDO...NEWTOWN AND MELLOTT AROUND 740 AM EDT...
PURDUE UNIVERSITY...WINGATE...WEST LAFAYETTE...SHADELAND...MONTEZUMA
AND KINGMAN AROUND 745 AM EDT...

THESE STORMS 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.

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

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LAT...LON 4070 8637 4061 8637 3986 8692 3987 8701
      3971 8703 3970 8753 4046 8752 4048 8710
      4057 8709 4057 8678 4070 8676
TIME...MOT...LOC 1121Z 271DEG 33KT 4063 8706 3968 8774

RYAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery	51 min
Jun 15, 8:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Madison, Marion, Putnam and 1 more	53 min
Jun 15, 9:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Decatur, Hancock, Johnson, Rush, Shelby	61 min
Jun 15, 11:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	71 hr
Jun 15, 11:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	69 hr
Jun 15, 11:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	5 days
Jun 15, 11:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	51 hr
Jun 15, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Daviess, Knox	50 min
Jun 15, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Sullivan	40 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.