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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 7, 1986Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1986, 6:10 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1986, 6:10 PM EST (23:10 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1986, 6:45 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Rush 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 7:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe, White28 min
May 6, 8:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVermillion, Warren30 min
May 6, 8:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain30 min
May 6, 8:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks30 min
May 6, 9:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone30 min
May 6, 9:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion26 min
May 6, 9:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Shelby30 min
May 6, 9:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson30 min
May 6, 10:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock21 min
May 6, 10:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry, Rush32 min
May 6, 10:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFayette32 min
May 6, 10:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWayne33 min
May 7, 2:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur25 min
May 7, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe45 min
May 7, 4:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Montgomery42 min
May 7, 4:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke42 min
May 7, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks, Marion45 min
May 7, 5:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson42 min
May 7, 5:30 PM ESTTornado WarningINDJohnson, Marion30 min
May 7, 6:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDShelby25 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.