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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 20, 2015Morgan County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2015, 10:44 PM EDT for Morgan 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 20, 2015, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2015, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Morgan County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 385 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: 1631 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 20, 8:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Brown, Monroe	3 hr
Jul 20, 8:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	3 hr
Jul 20, 9:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke	3 hr
Jul 20, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Montgomery	35 min
Jul 20, 9:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Rush	3 hr
Jul 20, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hendricks	30 min
Jul 20, 10:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Marion	3 hr
Jul 20, 11:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Marion	3 hr
Jul 21, 2:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Marion	5 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.