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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 26, 20164 counties in Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2016, 4:46 PM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 29 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: Apr 26, 2016, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, IN, Parke County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 26, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

591 
WUUS53 KIND 262046
SVRIND
INC021-121-165-167-262115-
/O.NEW.KIND.SV.W.0021.160426T2046Z-160426T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
446 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN VIGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
  SOUTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
  SOUTHWESTERN PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...
  NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 446 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VERMILION...OR
  7 MILES EAST OF PARIS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TERRE HAUTE...CLINTON...ROCKVILLE...FAIRVIEW PARK...SEELYVILLE...
  ROSEDALE...STAUNTON...UNIVERSAL...MECCA...BLANFORD...FONTANET...
  BRIDGETON...NORTH TERRE HAUTE...SHEPARDSVILLE AND SANDFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3973 8753 3977 8716 3946 8716 3951 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 272DEG 24KT 3962 8755 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

TDUD

1 follow-up statement

355 
WWUS53 KIND 262104 RRA
SVSIND

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
504 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2016

INC021-121-165-167-262115-
/O.CON.KIND.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160426T2115Z/
VIGO IN-VERMILLION IN-PARKE IN-CLAY IN-
504 PM EDT TUE APR 26 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN VIGO...SOUTHERN VERMILLION...SOUTHWESTERN PARKE AND
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTIES...

AT 504 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VERMILION...OR
10 MILES EAST OF PARIS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TERRE HAUTE...CLINTON...ROCKVILLE...FAIRVIEW PARK...SEELYVILLE...ROSEDALE...
STAUNTON...UNIVERSAL...MECCA...BLANFORD...FONTANET...BRIDGETON...NORTH
TERRE HAUTE...SHEPARDSVILLE AND SANDFORD.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3973 8753 3977 8716 3946 8716 3951 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2104Z 270DEG 15KT 3962 8750 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

TDUD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Boone, Montgomery	46 min
Apr 26, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Putnam	45 min
Apr 26, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Decatur	43 min
Apr 26, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hamilton, Madison	40 min
Apr 26, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	34 min
Apr 26, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan	25 min
Apr 26, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison	37 min
Apr 26, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan	33 min
Apr 26, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry, Rush	41 min
Apr 26, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan, Putnam	36 min
Apr 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion, Shelby	24 min
Apr 26, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Rush, Shelby	47 min
Apr 26, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Henry, Rush	26 min
Apr 26, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	45 min
Apr 26, 5:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Shelby	2 hr
Apr 26, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Vermillion	3 hr
Apr 26, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings, Rush, Shelby	24 min
Apr 26, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	32 min
Apr 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Morgan, Owen, Putnam, Vigo	3 hr
Apr 26, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Sullivan	32 min
Apr 26, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IND	Greene, Monroe, Owen	35 min
Apr 26, 7:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IND	Brown, Greene, Monroe, Owen	3 hr

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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.