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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jan 17, 2012, 9:00 AM EST for Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 17, 2012, 9:00 AM EST (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2012, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Jennings County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 818 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 844 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jan 17, 8:39 AM EST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 8:39 AM EST, 21 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 458 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2012 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-181000- 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- 458 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY EARLY TODAY. LATER THIS AFTERNOON THERE IS A CHANCE SOME OF THE PRECIPITATION MAY CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT SNOW OR A LIGHT RAIN/SNOW MIX. HAZARDS: LIGHTNING AND STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 TO 50 MPH EARLY TODAY...IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL. LIGHT SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TIMING: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW STARTING THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. LITTLE TO NO SNOW ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL BRING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY TODAY...AND POSSIBLE SNOW SHOWERS OR A RAIN/SNOW MIX LATER TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. OUTLOOK: SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY...AND FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. DISCUSSION: SEVERAL STORM SYSTEMS WILL PUSH THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA DURING THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM RELATED REPORTS. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) SMF
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Local storm report, Jan 17, 6:26 AM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 3:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 52 min |
| Jan 17, 4:41 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IND | Howard | 34 min |
| Jan 17, 5:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IND | Greene, Owen, Sullivan | 65 min |
| Jan 17, 6:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan | 35 min |
| Jan 17, 6:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Lawrence, Monroe, Owen and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jan 17, 6:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Marion | 25 min |
| Jan 17, 6:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Madison | 31 min |
| Jan 17, 6:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 68 min |
| Jan 17, 7:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 24 min |
| Jan 17, 7:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings | 42 min |
| Jan 17, 7:21 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Decatur, Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Johnson and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:23 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Decatur, Greene, Jackson and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 8:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 8:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 21 min |
| Jan 17, 8:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 9:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 34 min |
| Jan 17, 9:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 51 hr |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 19 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 23 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 23 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox, Posey | 21 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 14 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 16 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike | 19 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox | 20 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren | 16 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Warren | 16 days |
| Jan 17, 10:05 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 18 days |
| Jan 17, 12:25 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Decatur, Greene, Jackson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 17, 6:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Rush and 1 more | 4 hr |
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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.