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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2012, 7:51 PM EDT for Brown County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2012, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2012, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brown County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:54 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Nashville, IN | |
| Mar 23, 7:59 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | 2 N Nashville, IN | |
| Mar 23, 8:00 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | 4 N Nashville, IN | STATE ROAD 135 IS COVERED AND SLICK WITH HAIL. EVENT TIME IS ESTIMATED. |
| Mar 23, 8:00 PM EDT | HAIL 1.5 | 3 N Nashville, IN | HAILSTONES FOUND ON GROUND A WHILE AFTER STORM PASSAGE |
| Mar 23, 8:01 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 N Nashville, IN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 23, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
349 WFUS53 KIND 232351 TORIND INC013-240015- /O.NEW.KIND.TO.W.0013.120323T2351Z-120324T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 751 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 746 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NASHVILLE...OR 12 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NASHVILLE... HELMSBURG... 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 3930 8632 3924 8618 3913 8628 3916 8635 TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 209DEG 15KT 3919 8628 $$ PUMA
1 follow-up statement
049 WWUS53 KIND 232358 SVSIND SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 758 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 INC013-240015- /O.CON.KIND.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120324T0015Z/ BROWN- 758 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM EDT... AT 756 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NASHVILLE...OR 14 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HELMSBURG. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3930 8632 3924 8618 3913 8628 3916 8635 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 209DEG 15KT 3922 8626 $$ KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Knox, Sullivan | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 37 min |
| Mar 23, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and 1 more | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam | 28 min |
| Mar 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke | 46 min |
| Mar 23, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Owen | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 5:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence, Monroe | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Marion | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Morgan | 61 min |
| Mar 23, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hendricks | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan | 41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.