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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 12, 2014Jennings County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at May 12, 2014, 4:16 PM EDT for Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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: May 12, 2014, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Jennings County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 290 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 May 12, 3:43 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:43 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 3:52 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 12, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
221 PM EDT MON MAY 12 2014

INZ061-068>070-121900-
DAVIESS-GREENE-LAWRENCE-MARTIN-
221 PM EDT MON MAY 12 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR DAVIESS...SOUTHEASTERN GREENE...
WESTERN LAWRENCE AND MARTIN COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

AT 216 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF WASHINGTON...OR 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF PETERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG
WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SHOALS...
  CANNELBURG...
  LOOGOOTEE...
  WEST BOGGS LAKE...
  LACY...
  BURNS CITY...
  INDIAN SPRINGS...
  HURON...
  SILVERVILLE...
  WILLIAMS...
  OWENSBURG...
  SPRINGVILLE...
  MITCHELL...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3867 8719 3902 8668 3899 8668 3899 8663
      3874 8646 3868 8663 3868 8667 3866 8667
      3852 8707
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 236DEG 30KT 3865 8703

KOCH

Local storm report, May 12, 4:08 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 4:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Marion	33 min
May 11, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren	44 min
May 11, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Tipton	27 min
May 11, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison	49 min
May 11, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Tipton	27 min
May 11, 11:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Howard	26 min
May 12, 12:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Tippecanoe, Warren	3 hr
May 12, 12:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Delaware	25 min
May 12, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Daviess, Martin	39 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.