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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2014, 5:49 PM EDT for Boone County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 19, 2014, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2014, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Boone County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 1195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 Aug 19, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 5:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 541 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2014 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-201000- 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- 541 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO IMPACT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE EVENING. HAZARDS: MAIN SEVERE THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. TIMING: MAIN SEVERE THREAT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. DISCUSSION: THE REMNANTS OF AN UPPER WAVE OVER ILLINOIS AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CONTINUING THROUGH THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES THROUGH SATURDAY. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALWAYS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. DISCUSSION: A FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AND STALL OUT. THIS WILL SERVE TO KEEP THE WEATHER UNSETTLED OVERALL THROUGH MOST OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK OVER THE REGION FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH THIS EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) RYAN
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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:40 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Parke | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hancock | 44 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.