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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 1:03 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1987, 1:03 PM EST (18:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1987, 1:35 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Tippecanoe 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

Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 021801
SVRIND
INC157-021835-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
101 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 135 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... NORTH TIPPERCANOE                                
                                                                         
AT 1257 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE 
WARREN...TIPPECANOE COUNTY LINE. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL  
AND DAMAGING WINDS.  
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT
DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO 0AN INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
RP

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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 8:51 AM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
848 AM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

HERE IS AN UPDATE OF THE REPORTED TORNADO IN RUSH COUNTY ON
SATURDAY AFTERNOON MAY 31 1987.

AT 400 PM EST A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES NORTH OF RUSHVILLE
BY THE RUSH COUNTY SHERIFF. A WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR EASTERN RUSH
COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA AT 406PM EST.

IT WAS LATER LEARNED THAT THERE WAS NO TORNADO IN THAT AREA. WHAT
LIKELY WAS OBSERVED WAS A WHIRL OF DUSET ASSOCIATED WITH GUSTY WINDS
AHEAD OF THE OUTFLOW FROM THE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS.

THERE WAS NO TORNADO IN RUSH COUNTY ON SATURDAY MAY 31ST.
EDWARDS

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:42 PM EST, 21 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1240 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL
INDIANA AT 1230 PM EST.

STORMS WERE 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHEATFIELD...OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF
GARY...10 MILES WEST OF OXFORD...OR 30 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE...AND
BETWEEN CAYUGA AND ATTICA...OR ABOUT 25 TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LAFAYETTE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE
STORMS. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS WILL HAVE
GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAINFALL. IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...
GET INSIDE TO AVOID BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

DS

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:00 PM EST, 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
100 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN NORTHWEST INDIANA.

THE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN DEMOTTE...OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF GARY...BY
THE DEMOTTE TOWN MARSHALL AT 1250 PM EST.

THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF
WHEATFIELD BY 115 PM.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STORM.
HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.
.
DS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	42 min
Jun 2, 2:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	37 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warren	47 min
Jun 2, 3:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton, Tippecanoe	26 min
Jun 2, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion	43 min
Jun 2, 5:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	35 min
Jun 2, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Putnam	38 min
Jun 2, 6:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Marion	25 min
Jun 2, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	26 min
Jun 2, 6:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	40 min

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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.