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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Sep 2, 2012, 3:43 PM EDT for Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 2, 2012, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Marion County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Sep 1, 6:51 PM EDT, 20 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 6:51 PM EDT, 20 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 5:38 PM EDT, 22 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 538 PM EDT SAT SEP 1 2012 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-022145- 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- 538 PM EDT SAT SEP 1 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: PERIODIC RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TONIGHT. HAZARDS: ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. TIMING: TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: THE REMAINS OF ISAAC HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN DECLARED EXTRA TROPICAL BY HPC. THIS SYSTEM WILL DRIFT SLOWLY EAST ACROSS OUR REGION THE NEXT FEW DAYS PRODUCING VERY WET WEATHER LATER TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. OUTLOOK: MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA ON SUNDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY...AND THEN ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER ANY THUNDERSTORMS CAN CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DISCUSSION: A SYSTEM WILL DRIFT SLOWLY EAST ACROSS OUR REGION THE NEXT FEW DAYS PRODUCING VERY WET WEATHER THROUGH SUNDAY. MONDAY WILL STILL BE WET...BUT RAIN AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHTER. AFTER THE SYSTEM PULLS AWAY FROM THE AREA...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL AFFECT US AROUND TUESDAY. THEN A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH BY LATE WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DIGS INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES. DRY WEATHER AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL BE THE RULE BY LATE NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN WITH PRECIPITATION AMOUNT REPORTS OR OTHERWISE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) SMF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Boone, Clinton, Delaware, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry and 3 more | 116 min |
Nearby
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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.