Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1986, 3:49 PM EST for Blackford County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blackford 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 2:46 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 245 PM EST MON JUN 16 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 730 PM EST... AT 243 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING 10 MILE SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR TILLMAN IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND CONTAINED SMALL HAIL.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..VERY HEAVY RAINS..AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO OHIO BY 3 PM EST. MARSHALL
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:27 PM EST, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 325 PM EST MON JUN 16 1986 ...THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 730 PM EST HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 320 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE NEAR BLUFFTON TO 15 MILES WEST OF MARION IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAINS.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..SMALL HAIL..AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BY 425 PM EST THIS LINE WILL EXTEND FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION TO HARTFORD CITY TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTLAND. MARSHALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 26 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.