Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1986, 3:00 PM EST for Brown County, Johnson County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1986, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1986, 3:25 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, IN, Johnson 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 101955 TORIND INC081-013-102025- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 300 PM EST MON MAR 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING... CENTRAL INDIANA COUNTIES...NORTHERN BROWN AND SOUTHERN JOHNSON. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AT 255 PM EST ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. EDWARDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Gibson | 20 min |
| Mar 10, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Morgan | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson, Marion | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Spencer | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 3:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Henry | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Shelby | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph, Wayne | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Union | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 20 min |
| Mar 10, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush | 27 min |
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.