Alert archive / Indiana / Freeze Warnings in 2013
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this freeze warning at Apr 19, 2013, 2:42 PM EDT for 39 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Apr 20, 2013, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2013, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2013, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
All 39 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 101 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 19, 2:22 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:22 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 2:36 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 236 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 INZ021-028>031-035>040-043>048-051>055-060>063-067>070-201000- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-VERMILLION-PARKE-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS- MARION-HANCOCK-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SULLIVAN-GREENE- MONROE-BROWN-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE- 236 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: FLOODING INTO THE EVENING. FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. HAZARDS: FLOODED ROADS AND STREAMS. RIVER FLOODING. FREEZING TEMPERATURES. TIMING: FLOODING THROUGH THE EVENING. FREEZING TEMPERATURES AFTER 400 AM TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS IN PROGRESS. MANY ROADS ARE FLOODED AND CLOSED AS CREEKS AND STREAMS HAVE RUN OUT OF THEIR BANKS. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 6 PM EDT...AND MUCH COOLER AIR WILL SPREAD INTO INDIANA. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO...OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING AFTER 400 AM TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM MAY BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS NEXT TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT IN ALL THUNDERSTORMS. RIVER FLOODING WILL BE ONGOING MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. DISCUSSION: COLD HIGH PRESSURE MAY BRING FROST ON SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A WARM UP IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM BRINGING A RAIN THREAT BY MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY REPORT ANY ONGOING FLOODING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ041-042-049-056-057-064-065-071-072-201000- DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-HENRY-SHELBY-RUSH-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-JACKSON- JENNINGS- 236 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. HAZARDS: FREEZING TEMPERATURES. TIMING: AFTER 400 AM TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 6 PM EDT...AND MUCH COOLER AIR WILL SPREAD INTO INDIANA. COLD AIR ARRIVING IN THE AREA MAY RESULT IN TEMPERATURES FALLING TO OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING AFTER 400 AM TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM MAY BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS NEXT TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT IN ALL THUNDERSTORMS. DISCUSSION: COLD HIGH PRESSURE MAY BRING FROST ON SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A WARM UP IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM BRINGING A RAIN THREAT BY MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Boone, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Hendricks, Howard and 6 more | 36 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:23 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Brown, Clay, Daviess, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock and 14 more | 33 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:25 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:49 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 52 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:49 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe, White | 29 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:57 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | Marion, Morgan | 50 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013
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.