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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 2014Jennings County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2014, 5:38 PM EDT for Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 23, 2014, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Jennings County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 23, 4:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 4:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 12:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1242 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051-052-241000-
CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-
BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE-
PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-
1242 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE.

HAZARDS: DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE
HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING.

TIMING: GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS THROUGH 8 PM.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT THIS
AFTERNOON...CREATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH A MOIST
UNSTABLE AIRMASS PRESENT THIS AFTERNOON...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS
THE PRIMARY THREAT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THE OHIO VALLEY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. IT IS
TOO SOON TO DETERMINE IF ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...
HOWEVER LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THREATS WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.

DISCUSSION: UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND A STAGNANT FRONTAL
BOUNDARY WILL KEEP THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST
FOR THE NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL
LOWERCASE)

INZ053>057-060>065-067>072-241000-
OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-
BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-
1242 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM IS
POSSIBLE.

HAZARDS: DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...AND
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING.

TIMING: GREATEST RISK FOR STRONG/ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS
THROUGH 8 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT THIS
AFTERNOON...CREATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH A MOIST
UNSTABLE AIRMASS PRESENT THIS AFTERNOON...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE
PRIMARY THREAT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT
AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THE OHIO VALLEY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. IT IS
TOO SOON TO DETERMINE IF ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...
HOWEVER LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THREATS WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.

DISCUSSION: UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND A STAGNANT FRONTAL
BOUNDARY WILL KEEP THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST
FOR THE NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

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, Jun 23, 4:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:10 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:10 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:32 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:38 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
Jun 23, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Warren	38 min
Jun 23, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Tippecanoe, Warren	21 min
Jun 23, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Clay, Vigo	33 min
Jun 23, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Putnam	41 min
Jun 23, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Lawrence	46 min
Jun 23, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hendricks	48 min
Jun 23, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Daviess	36 min
Jun 23, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Marion	48 min
Jun 23, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Lawrence, Martin	51 min
Jun 23, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton	35 min
Jun 23, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Madison	43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.