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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

February 2, 2016Monroe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Feb 2, 2016, 11:52 AM EST for Monroe County, Indiana. It was in force for 23 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: Feb 2, 2016, 11:52 AM EST (16:52 UTC)
Expired: Feb 2, 2016, 12:15 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Monroe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Feb 2, 9:49 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 9:49 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 2, 3:40 AM EST, 8 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 2, 11:52 AM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1152 AM EST TUE FEB 2 2016

INZ061-062-070-021715-
LAWRENCE IN-GREENE IN-MONROE IN-
1152 AM EST TUE FEB 2 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 1151 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BLOOMINGTON...WOODVILLE HILLS...HARRODSBURG...INDIANA UNIVERSITY...
WHITEHALL...OWENSBURG...SOLSBERRY AND SMITHVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3890 8668 3891 8694 3920 8664 3920 8643
      3915 8637 3913 8637 3890 8667
TIME...MOT...LOC 1651Z 214DEG 43KT 3897 8667

MRD/JK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 2, 2:39 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Madison	21 min
Feb 2, 2:58 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Madison	17 min
Feb 2, 3:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Clinton	28 min
Feb 2, 3:26 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IND	Howard	19 min

Nearby

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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.