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Special Weather Statement, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2025, 4:11 PM EDT for Greene County, Owen County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 18, 2025, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2025, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 50
Counties Greene County, IN, Owen County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Oct 18, 3:40 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 3:40 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Indianapolis IN 240 PM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-191845- 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- 240 PM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for central Indiana. .DAY ONE...Through Tonight. Thunderstorms are possible through tonight. Areas along and west of I-69 will have the best chances for storms into early evening, then the storms will spread east. A few storms may produce strong wind gusts into early evening and then again overnight as a narrow line of storms tracks quickly east. Locally heavy rainfall is possible. Cloud to ground lightning is a threat with any thunderstorm. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Westerly winds will gust up to 30 to 40 mph at times on Sunday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed into tonight. && More information, along with other weather, hydrological and climate information can be found at http://weather.gov/ind
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 18, 3:42 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Greene | 33 min |
| Oct 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Owen | 38 min |
| Oct 18, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Johnson, Marion | 25 min |
| Oct 18, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Marion | 33 min |
| Oct 18, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hancock, Madison | 36 min |
| Oct 18, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Delaware, Hancock, Madison | 31 min |
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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.