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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 9:11 PM EDT for Fountain County, Vermillion County, Warren County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2011, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 312 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
055
WFUS53 KIND 260111
TORIND
INC045-165-171-260145-
/O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0065.110526T0111Z-110526T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
911 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FOUNTAIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
NORTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 906 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF NEWPORT...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF DANVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
VEEDERSBURG AND COVINGTON AROUND 920 PM EDT...
HILLSBORO AROUND 925 PM EDT...
NEWTOWN...ATTICA AND MELLOTT AROUND 930 PM EDT...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 74 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 4 AND 22.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4048 8709 4013 8709 3995 8733 3995 8742
3993 8743 3993 8740 3991 8738 3992 8741
3999 8754 4005 8754
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 218DEG 45KT 4004 8740
$$
CPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Shelby | 50 min |
| May 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Shelby | 45 min |
| May 25, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison | 34 min |
| May 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Rush, Shelby | 15 min |
| May 25, 8:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 59 min |
| May 25, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren | 67 min |
| May 25, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan, Vigo | 60 min |
| May 25, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph, Rush | 30 min |
| May 25, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Shelby | 49 min |
| May 25, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Tippecanoe and 3 more | 53 min |
| May 25, 9:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion | 36 min |
| May 25, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 48 min |
| May 25, 9:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Tippecanoe, Warren | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Putnam, Sullivan, Vigo | 43 min |
| May 25, 9:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 25 min |
| May 25, 9:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin | 53 min |
| May 25, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 42 min |
| May 25, 9:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Fountain, Hendricks and 5 more | 24 min |
| May 25, 10:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Morgan and 1 more | 41 min |
| May 25, 10:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hendricks, Howard, Marion and 4 more | 48 min |
| May 25, 10:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe and 1 more | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hamilton, Hendricks, Howard and 2 more | 40 min |
| May 25, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Jackson, Jennings and 2 more | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 47 min |
| May 25, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Madison and 3 more | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Tipton | 41 min |
| May 25, 11:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Randolph, Rush, Shelby | 48 min |
| May 25, 11:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison | 36 min |
| May 25, 11:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Martin | 6 hr |
| May 25, 11:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 6 hr |
| May 25, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 27 min |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 5 days |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Owen | 70 hr |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 5 days |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 4 days |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 6 days |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 8 days |
| May 26, 12:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox | 9 days |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 21 hr |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 21 hr |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 7 days |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 21 hr |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton, Madison | 21 hr |
| May 26, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Greene | 21 hr |
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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.