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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 25, 2011Carroll County, Howard County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 2:27 PM EDT for Carroll County, Howard County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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 25, 2011, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Carroll County, IN, Howard County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 9:50 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

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

925 
WFUS53 KIND 251827
TORIND
INC015-067-251900-
/O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0039.110525T1827Z-110525T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
227 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
  NORTHWESTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DELPHI...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MONTICELLO...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CAMDEN AND FLORA AROUND 235 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN INDIANAPOLIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4057 8637 4057 8617 4050 8616 4054 8667
      4064 8666 4069 8637
TIME...MOT...LOC 1828Z 265DEG 35KT 4059 8660

$$

MRD/DT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Delaware	40 min
May 24, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	50 min
May 24, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe	43 min
May 24, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	30 min
May 25, 9:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Tipton	44 min
May 25, 9:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Howard, Tipton	31 min
May 25, 9:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	45 min
May 25, 10:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren	52 min
May 25, 11:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe	33 min
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe, White	35 hr
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	15 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	16 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	13 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	19 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Knox, Sullivan	35 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Knox, Sullivan	35 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Knox	17 days
May 25, 12:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Gibson, Knox, Posey	12 days
May 25, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard	26 min
May 25, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox	15 min
May 25, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	39 min
May 25, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	52 min
May 25, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren	54 min
May 25, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Morgan	48 min
May 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin	45 min
May 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	15 min
May 25, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe	66 min
May 25, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Sullivan	48 min
May 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton, Howard, Tipton	31 min
May 25, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby	40 min
May 25, 2:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard	23 min
May 25, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin	47 min
May 25, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard	16 min
May 25, 3:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	28 min
May 25, 3:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Tipton	35 min
May 25, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings	46 min
May 25, 3:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin	3 hr
May 25, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Owen	49 min
May 25, 3:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe	6 hr
May 25, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	43 min
May 25, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Lawrence and 3 more	56 min
May 25, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo	50 min
May 25, 4:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more	9 hr
May 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur	49 min
May 25, 4:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion	6 hr
May 25, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Shelby	42 min
May 25, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	20 min
May 25, 5:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Decatur, Rush	19 min
May 25, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	44 min
May 25, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene, Monroe, Owen	44 min
May 25, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Rush	41 min
May 25, 6:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Knox, Sullivan	42 min
May 25, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	41 min
May 25, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Randolph	25 min
May 25, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	38 min
May 25, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	52 min
May 25, 6:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin	3 hr
May 25, 6:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson, Monroe, Morgan	50 min
May 25, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson	49 min
May 25, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Monroe, Owen	33 min
May 25, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Morgan	46 min
May 25, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	38 min
May 25, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	48 min
May 25, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam	31 min
May 25, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby	39 min
May 25, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Greene, Hendricks, Monroe, Morgan, Owen	38 min
May 25, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe	49 min
May 25, 7:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Clay, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	29 min
May 25, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Tipton	30 min
May 25, 7:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby	43 min
May 25, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	51 min
May 25, 7:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan	32 min
May 25, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Morgan	30 min
May 25, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush	40 min
May 25, 7:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Lawrence	51 min
May 25, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry, Rush, Shelby	48 min
May 25, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Tipton	27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.