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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Fountain County, Vermillion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 4:32 PM EST for Fountain County, Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1987, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1987, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 4:43 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Vermillion, IN
Jun 2, 4:55 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Fountain, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1094 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 022135
SVRIND
INC165-045-022215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
432 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
 
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... NORTH VERMILLION... SOUTH FOUNTAIN


AT 425 PM EST...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAYUGA...OR
30 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINES[S.
 
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
DS

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 2, 12:42 PM EST, 3 hours 50 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 hours 32 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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:22 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN                                       1121 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

1251 PM EST JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
            IN DEMOTTE.= DEMOTTE IS ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST
            OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS.
WVE

Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:26 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN                                       1125 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

122 PM EST TIPPECANOE COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF
           WEST LAFAYAETTE AND SR 26. REPORTED BY INDIANA STATE
           POLICE.

WVE

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:32 PM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
430 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER THE NORTH HALF
OF INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AT 420 PM
EST.

OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...STORMS WERE ALONG INTERSTATE 74 FROM
WEST OF THE STATE LINE TO 10 MILES EAST OF VEEDERSBURG. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS LIKELY. HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES FOR MOTORISTS.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN VERMILLION AND SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTIES IN
WEST CENTRAL INDIANWA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN
430PM AND 515 PM EST.
EDWARDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	32 min
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, 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.