Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT for Newton County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, IN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 102325 SVRIND INC111-110015- BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 630 PM EST THU JUL 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING NORTHWEST INDIANA COUNTY OF NEWTON AT 625 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF MOROCCO...50 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR..LARGE HAIL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOO"D LOW AREAS. THESE STORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE A SMALL TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE POLICE..SHERIFF..OR STATE POLICE FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DS
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:23 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 620 PM EST THU JUL 10 1986 AT 615 PM EST...THERE WAS NO RAIN IN CENTRAL INDIANA. HOWEVER...THERE WERE SHOWERS SCATTERED OVER PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHERN AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS FROM KANKAKEE TO NEAR BLOOMINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST INDIANA COUNTIES OF NEWTON AND NOR THERN BENTON BETWEEN 645PM AND 730PM EST. RAIN WILL BE HEAVY IN THE CITIES OF MOROCCO...SHELDON AND GOODLAND. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. KENYON
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.