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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 21, 2011Parke County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2011, 5:52 PM EDT for Parke County, Indiana. It was in force for 38 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 21, 2011, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Parke County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

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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: 489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1353 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -5.5

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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 21, 5:03 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 5:03 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 4:08 AM EDT, 13 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
408 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-220900-
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-
408 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND ARE LIKELY TONIGHT. SOME OF
THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE
PRIMARY THREATS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ANY STORM
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

AREAL FLOODING FROM THE STORMS ON MONDAY WILL CONTINUE AT SOME
LOCATIONS TODAY. FLOODING WILL ALSO OCCUR ALONG SOME AREA RIVERS.
SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS.

ISOLATED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY.

FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG SOME AREA RIVERS. SEE THE LATEST
HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS
WELL AS ON WEDNESDAY.

&&

MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL
LOWERCASE)

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:56 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:05 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:21 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:52 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 20, 8:23 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	4 days
Jun 20, 9:55 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	4 days
Jun 20, 9:55 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	60 hr
Jun 20, 9:55 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	6 days
Jun 21, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jennings	48 min
Jun 21, 3:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren	24 hr
Jun 21, 3:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Decatur, Hamilton, Hancock, Johnson and 2 more	24 hr
Jun 21, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jackson	37 min
Jun 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	52 min
Jun 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Bartholomew	37 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Daviess, Knox	49 min
Jun 21, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jennings	10 min
Jun 21, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hancock	39 min
Jun 21, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion	22 min
Jun 21, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton	39 min
Jun 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone, Hendricks	45 min
Jun 21, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Howard, Tipton	37 min
Jun 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone, Clinton	28 min
Jun 21, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Montgomery	40 min
Jun 21, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Carroll	10 min
Jun 21, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	White	15 min

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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.