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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Indianapolis, IN

March 2, 2012Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2012, 3:47 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 13 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: Mar 2, 2012, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Rush County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Mar 2, 1:02 PM EST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

644 
WUUS53 KIND 022047
SVRIND
INC139-022100-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0030.120302T2047Z-120302T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
347 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 345 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF RUSHVILLE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF CONNERSVILLE...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3961 8544 3973 8543 3979 8533 3979 8530
      3964 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 243DEG 23KT 3969 8537
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

MRD/MR

1 follow-up statement

700 
WWUS53 KIND 022058
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
358 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012

INC139-022108-
/O.EXP.KIND.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-120302T2100Z/
RUSH-
358 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 400 PM EST/300 PM CST/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3961 8544 3973 8543 3979 8533 3979 8530
      3964 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 243DEG 23KT 3972 8529

$$

77/TDUD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 3:30 AM EST	Wind Advisory	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more	22 hr
Mar 2, 5:58 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Monroe	47 min
Mar 2, 6:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Johnson, Shelby	47 min
Mar 2, 7:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hancock	41 min
Mar 2, 7:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Rush	45 min
Mar 2, 7:39 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Delaware	51 min
Mar 2, 8:06 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Randolph	39 min
Mar 2, 8:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Henry, Randolph	58 min
Mar 2, 9:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	44 min
Mar 2, 9:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	47 min
Mar 2, 10:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Putnam	50 min
Mar 2, 10:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Lawrence	31 min
Mar 2, 10:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison and 3 more	44 min
Mar 2, 11:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison and 5 more	44 min
Mar 2, 1:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard	29 min
Mar 2, 1:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	43 min
Mar 2, 1:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vigo	41 min
Mar 2, 1:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam	24 min
Mar 2, 2:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam	36 min
Mar 2, 2:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton	34 min
Mar 2, 2:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe	23 min
Mar 2, 2:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison and 2 more	41 min
Mar 2, 2:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Hamilton, Madison, Tipton	34 min
Mar 2, 3:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry, Randolph, Rush, Shelby	33 min
Mar 2, 3:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Jennings	21 min
Mar 2, 3:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Jennings	16 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.