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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2025, 5:48 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2025, 5:48 PM EST (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2025, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fountain County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Parke County, IN, Vermillion County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 28, 5:34 PM EST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 5:34 PM EST, 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 10:09 AM EST, 7 hours 39 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Indianapolis IN 1009 AM EST Sun Dec 28 2025 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-291515- 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- 1009 AM EST Sun Dec 28 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for central Indiana. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. A narrow line of showers thunderstorms will move across the area this evening. Damaging winds and the potential for isolated tornadoes will be the main threat along the line. Outside of any rain or thunderstorms, winds will increase this afternoon with gusts peaking at 50 mph at times this evening and tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Wind gusts will continue to peak at 45 to 50 mph into Monday afternoon before gradually decreasing. A few flurries and light snow showers are possible on Monday as well but no accumulation is expected. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed late this afternoon into this evening. && More information, along with other weather, hydrological and climate information can be found at http://weather.gov/ind
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 12:03 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 41 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 40 min |
| Dec 28, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Vermillion and 1 more | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo | 25 min |
| Dec 28, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 17 min |
| Dec 28, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke and 3 more | 45 min |
| Dec 28, 6:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Hendricks, Knox, Owen, Parke and 3 more | 43 min |
| Dec 28, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Tipton | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more | 46 min |
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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.