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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 4, 2015, 3:37 AM EST for 11 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Mar 4, 2015, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2015, 3:37 AM EST (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2015, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2015, 3:20 AM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
Counties Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Greene County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Mar 4, 3:15 AM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 3:15 AM EST, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Daviess, Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence, Martin | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 4 days |
| Mar 4, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Washington | 19 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.