Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1986, 3:30 PM EST for Clay County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1986, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1986, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 30, 1:59 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 200 PM EST MON JUN 30 1986 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JACKSON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 200 PM EST ONE HALF TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MILLPORT WHICH IS 10 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNSTOWN. AT 145PM EST...THE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN INDIANA FROM WASHINGTON TO BEDFORD ...FRENCH LICK AND SEYMOUR. IN THE NORTHWEST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM THE INDIANA STATE LINE AT DANVILLE ILLINOIS TO WILLIAMSPORT AND LAFAYETTE INDIANA. STILL MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS FROM GREENFIELD TO CONNERSVILLE. KENYON AND 1000PM. AsLL THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING A LITTLE SOUTH OF EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTROMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. HAINES
Local storm report, Jun 30, 2:20 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
220 PM EST MON JUNE 30 1986
140 PM EST 1 1/2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL REPORETED BY COOPERATIVE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OVSERVER AT MILLPORT INDIANA
WHICH IS 10 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNSTOWN..45 MILES NORTH-
WEST OF LOUSIVILLE KY.
CURRANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 33 min |
| Jun 30, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 35 min |
| Jun 30, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 68 min |
| Jun 30, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.