Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2016

Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 13, 2016Fountain County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2016, 12:29 PM EDT for Fountain County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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 13, 2016, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN

County Fountain County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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 13, 10:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 10:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:47 AM EDT, 7 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
447 AM EDT WED JUL 13 2016

INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-140900-
CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-
TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE-PUTNAM-
HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-
RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-
MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAFAYETTE...FRANKFORT...KOKOMO...
CRAWFORDSVILLE...ANDERSON...MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...
SHELBYVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...VINCENNES...BEDFORD...SEYMOUR
447 AM EDT WED JUL 13 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK: CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE.
WARM AND HUMID.

HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...LIGHTNING...HEAT INDEX VALUES IN MID 90S TO NEAR 100.

TIMING: THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EVERYWHERE BY AFTERNOON AND
WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WILL BE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HIGHEST HEAT INDEX VALUES THIS AFTERNOON.

DISCUSSION: A FEW UPPER DISTURBANCES WILL BRING CHANCES FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL
CONTINUE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OR PARTS OF THE
AREA EVERY DAY BUT SATURDAY. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY
THUNDERSTORM.

DISCUSSION: A FRONT WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS PROVIDING CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF THE
PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL
LOWERCASE)

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 12:29 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1229 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016

INZ028-035-043-131700-
FOUNTAIN IN-WARREN IN-VERMILLION IN-
1229 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FOUNTAIN...CENTRAL WARREN AND
NORTHWESTERN VERMILLION COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM EDT...

AT 1229 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES SOUTHEAST OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COVINGTON...VEEDERSBURG...ATTICA...CAYUGA...HILLSBORO...KINGMAN...
PERRYSVILLE...NEWTOWN...MELLOTT...WALLACE...FOSTER...GESSIE...
YEDDO AND LODI.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4015 8753 4036 8710 3997 8709 3995 8730
      3995 8742 3994 8743 3993 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 1629Z 255DEG 48KT 4004 8751

DRT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Fountain, Montgomery	42 min
Jul 13, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Vermillion	27 min
Jul 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Montgomery	31 min
Jul 13, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke	26 min
Jul 13, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	34 min
Jul 13, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Vigo	30 min
Jul 13, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Tipton	37 min
Jul 13, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe	32 min
Jul 13, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion	34 min
Jul 13, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	33 min
Jul 13, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	12 min
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Madison, Tipton	37 min
Jul 13, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	34 min
Jul 13, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vigo	34 min
Jul 13, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Putnam	33 min
Jul 13, 5:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Clay, Vigo	3 hr
Jul 13, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Delaware, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Randolph	50 min
Jul 13, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hancock, Marion	32 min
Jul 13, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Madison, Randolph	39 min
Jul 13, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	37 min
Jul 13, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IND	Parke	36 min
Jul 13, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Henry, Randolph	41 min
Jul 13, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Clay, Putnam, Vigo	4 hr
Jul 13, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Marion, Morgan, Putnam	29 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Hendricks, Parke, Putnam	34 min
Jul 13, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Shelby	34 min
Jul 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan, Owen, Putnam	28 min
Jul 13, 6:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IND	Hendricks, Marion, Morgan, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan and 1 more	34 min
Jul 13, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo	38 min
Jul 13, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen and 3 more	48 min
Jul 13, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Johnson, Rush and 1 more	32 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.