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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 26, 2014Fountain County, Warren County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2014, 6:29 AM EDT for Fountain County, Warren County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 26, 2014, 6:29 AM EDT (10:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2014, 7:15 AM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN

Counties Fountain County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2014-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2014-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
449 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Jul 26, 4:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 4:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 5:12 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
512 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2014

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-270915-
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-
512 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES.

HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN/FLOODING.

TIMING: 6 PM TO 2 AM EDT.

DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER A WARM UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT
THIS EVENING...TRIGGERING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

OUTLOOK: THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
AGAIN ON SUNDAY EVENING. FURTHER OUT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE UPCOMING WEEK.

DISCUSSION: AN UPPER LOW WILL TRIGGER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY EVENING...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE.
MUCH COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER WILL BUILD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY
EARLY NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ON SATURDAY EVENING AND
NIGHT AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY EVENING.

&&

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:29 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
629 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2014

INZ028-029-035-043-044-261115-
FOUNTAIN-PARKE-TIPPECANOE-VERMILLION-WARREN-
629 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR FOUNTAIN...NORTHWESTERN PARKE...
SOUTHWESTERN TIPPECANOE...NORTHERN VERMILLION AND WARREN COUNTIES
UNTIL 715 AM EDT...

AT 626 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF POTOMAC...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF
DANVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WILLIAMSPORT...
  COVINGTON...
  VEEDERSBURG...
  PENCE...
  TAB...
  STATE LINE CITY...
  RAINSVILLE...
  PINE VILLAGE...
  WEST LEBANON...
  FOSTER...
  GESSIE...
  PERRYSVILLE...
  ATTICA...
  LODI...
  NEWTOWN...
  MELLOTT...
  YEDDO...
  KINGMAN...
  HILLSBORO...
  WALLACE...

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 4045 8753 4045 8696 4021 8704 4021 8709
      4007 8709 3982 8718 4000 8754
TIME...MOT...LOC 1029Z 299DEG 39KT 4025 8762

TDUD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion, Warren39 min
Jul 26, 7:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDFountain, Putnam31 min
Jul 26, 7:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam43 min
Jul 26, 8:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam45 min
Jul 26, 9:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDBrown, Morgan28 min
Jul 26, 9:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementINDBartholomew, Brown, Jackson45 min
Jul 26, 9:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Brown, Jackson24 min
Jul 26, 4:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchINDBartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 20 more9 hr
Jul 26, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion54 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.