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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Apr 2, 2014, 7:23 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 2, 2014, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2014, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Sullivan County, IN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 Apr 2, 7:12 PM EDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 7:12 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 4:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 444 PM EDT WED APR 2 2014 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-031000- 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- 444 PM EDT WED APR 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDS: HEAVY RAINFALL. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING. TIMING: THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. DISCUSSION: A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EAST FROM NORTHERN OKLAHOMA INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIFT NORTH INTO CENTRAL INDIANA OVERNIGHT. PERIODIC SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS A RESULT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES AS THE PRIMARY THREATS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. DISCUSSION: A NEARLY STATIONARY WARM FRONT OVER THE OHIO VALLEY WILL ALLOW SEVERAL AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE TO MOVE ALONG IT AND BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING AS THE WARM FRONT LIFTS INTO NORTHERN INDIANA...FOLLOWED BY AN ADDITIONAL THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BEHIND THE FRONT FOR FRIDAY AND INTO THE WEEKEND. GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY FRIDAY. CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL RETURN ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) RYAN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 7:23 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:36 AM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 52 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Daviess | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.