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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 12, 2015Montgomery County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2015, 1:41 AM EDT for Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 12, 2015, 1:41 AM EDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2015, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Montgomery County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1094 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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 Jul 12, 12:57 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:57 AM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 3:42 PM EDT, 9 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 1:25 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 1:41 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
Jul 12, 1:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone	35 min
Jul 12, 1:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren	4 hr
Jul 12, 2:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Marion	6 hr
Jul 12, 3:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Morgan	27 min
Jul 12, 3:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan	34 min
Jul 12, 3:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam	6 hr
Jul 12, 3:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson and 1 more	42 min
Jul 12, 4:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	8 hr
Jul 12, 5:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Morgan	6 hr
Jul 12, 5:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren	8 hr
Jul 12, 5:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Hamilton, Hancock, Marion	8 hr
Jul 12, 8:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam	6 hr
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Monroe, Morgan, Owen	4 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Monroe, Morgan, Owen	4 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby	5 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence, Washington	8 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Lawrence, Martin	13 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Lawrence, Martin	13 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Lawrence, Martin	12 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew	7 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan	7 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Johnson	7 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe, White	3 days
Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Greene	4 days
Jul 12, 10:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson and 4 more	6 hr
Jul 12, 1:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	4 hr
Jul 12, 2:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	IND	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more	24 hr
Jul 12, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	12 hr
Jul 12, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Morgan	12 hr
Jul 12, 5:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam	12 hr
Jul 12, 5:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Putnam	7 days
Jul 12, 5:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Marion	8 days
Jul 12, 5:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Putnam	18 hr
Jul 12, 5:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IND	Marion	7 days

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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.