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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Sep 5, 2014, 3:48 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 5, 2014, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
County Montgomery County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 Sep 5, 3:30 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 3:30 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 5, 3:45 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 345 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2014 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-061945- 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- 345 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES. HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HEAT INDICES IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100. TIMING: MOST LIKELY TIMING FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS THIS EVENING. HIGH HEAT INDICES THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTH LATE TODAY...MOVING INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT WITH NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY. OTHERWISE DRY AND COOLER WEATHER WILL BE THE RULE LATE SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TUESDAY AND CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF NEXT WEEK. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. DISCUSSION: LINGERING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AS THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES SOUTH. COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER IS THEN EXPECTED INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. ANOTHER FRONT WILL BRING STORM CHANCES BEGINNING TUESDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH MUCH OF THE REST OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ060>065-067>072-061945- SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS- MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 345 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL BE THE RULE THIS AFTERNOON WITH HEAT INDEXES IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100. THERE WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WITH A FEW STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE. HAZARDS: GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HEAT INDICES IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100. TIMING: MOST LIKELY TIMING FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING. HIGH HEAT INDICES THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTH LATE TODAY...MOVING INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT WITH NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY AS THE FRONT CONTINUES SOUTH...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TUESDAY AND CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF NEXT WEEK. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. DISCUSSION: LINGERING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AS THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES SOUTH. COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER IS THEN EXPECTED INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. ANOTHER FRONT WILL BRING STORM CHANCES BEGINNING TUESDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH MUCH OF THE REST OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) JH
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
348 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2014
INZ035-036-052030-
FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-
348 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN FOUNTAIN AND WESTERN
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM EDT...
AT 345 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF ROCKVILLE...OR 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
WALLACE...
SHADES STATE PARK...
ALAMO...
WAYNETOWN...
NEW MARKET...
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.
VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES
AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A
FLOODED ROADWAY.
&&
LAT...LON 4013 8703 3996 8689 3990 8709 3995 8709
3995 8720 3998 8722
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 232DEG 12KT 3995 8714
SMFNearby
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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.