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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2026, 5:29 PM EDT for Fountain County, Montgomery County, Parke 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2026, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 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
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Jul 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 21 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 21 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Warren | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Fountain | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Vigo | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Vermillion | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 6:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Boone | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Hendricks | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Morgan | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 7:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Vigo | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | Vigo | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | Vigo | 18 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.