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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Mar 17, 2012, 6:18 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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 17, 2012, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Sullivan County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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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</html>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 Mar 17, 6:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 6:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 245 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2012 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-181845- 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- 245 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. HAZARDS: LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF DOWNPOURS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. TIMING: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE A THREAT WITH ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS. DISCUSSION: CENTRAL INDIANA WILL REMAIN WITHIN A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL PRODUCE CONTINUED CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY HAIL...GUSTY WINDS OR LOCALIZED FLOODING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) SMF
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 6:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
618 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2012
INZ060-061-067-172300-
GREENE-KNOX-SULLIVAN-
618 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR WESTERN GREENE...NORTHEASTERN
KNOX AND SOUTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM EDT...
AT 617 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUSSELLVILLE...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAWRENCEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LINTON...
OAKTOWN...
CARLISLE...
FREELANDVILLE...
PAXTON...
PLEASANTVILLE...
DUGGER...
VICKSBURG...
LYONS...
WHEN THUNDER ROARS...GO INDOORS!
&&
LAT...LON 3889 8755 3891 8753 3895 8752 3898 8754
3918 8724 3898 8705 3875 8750 3877 8752
3878 8750 3881 8753 3885 8753 3886 8756
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 233DEG 22KT 3884 8755
PUMANearby
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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.