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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 30, 2015Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2015, 6:10 AM EDT for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2015, 6:10 AM EDT (10:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2015, 6:45 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 334 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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 30, 4:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 4:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
400 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-010800-
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-
400 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. SOME MAY BE SEVERE. FLOODING
CONTINUES.

HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING. FLOODING
ALONG SOME STREAMS AND RIVERS.

TIMING: BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ANYTIME TODAY AND THEN MAINLY
THIS EVENING. FLOODING ONGOING.

DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA BRINGING MORE
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. FLOODING WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA FROM RECENT EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. FOR
INFORMATION ON RIVER FLOODING PLEASE SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC
STATEMENT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

OUTLOOK: RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG MANY AREA RIVERS.
THERE WILL BE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL
INDIANA THROUGH MONDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED...HOWEVER LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM.

DISCUSSION: SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG MANY
AREA RIVERS THROUGH THE WEEK. SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENT
FOR DETAILS. A SLOW MOVING FRONT ALONG WITH A SERIES OF UPPER
WAVES WILL KEEP CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH
THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON.

&&

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, Jun 30, 3:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:10 AM 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 30, 3:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Parke, Vermillion	45 min
Jun 30, 5:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Carroll	35 min
Jun 30, 12:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Decatur	24 min
Jun 30, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jennings	50 min
Jun 30, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	43 min
Jun 30, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jackson	49 min
Jun 30, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jennings	36 min
Jun 30, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Morgan, Putnam	41 min
Jun 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	35 min
Jun 30, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Decatur, Jennings	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Jennings	18 min
Jun 30, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Shelby	50 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.