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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Madison County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 6:35 PM EST for Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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, 6:35 PM EST (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1987, 7:15 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Madison 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 6:40 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 0Madison, 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1987-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1987-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 022336
SVRIND
INC095-030015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
635 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
CENTRAL INDIANA... MADISON                                               
                                                                         
AT 635 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES NORTH OF  
INDIANAPOLIS OR 10 WEST OF ANDERSON. 
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 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.                                          
                                                                         
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS               
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.                                             
 
GERY

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, 4:32 PM EST, 2 hours 3 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
Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:40 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
440 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

350 PM EST CLINTON COUNTY...2 NORTH MULBERRY...GUST-NADO INDICATED
           IN WHEAT CROP...REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
^
DS
Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
450 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

445 PM EST TIPPECANOE COUNTY...ODELL...SMALL TREES DOWN...REPORTED
           BY STATE POLICE AND RELAYED BY STATE POLICE.e

DS
Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:04 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
502 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

455 PM EST NUMEROUS TREES SOUTHERN FOUNTAIN COUNTY. NEAR KINGMAN
           BY FOUNTAIN COUNTY SHERIFF

GERY
Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:25 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
526 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

522 PM EST AMATEUR RADIO REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT COLFAX
           IN SOUTHEAST TIPPECANOE COUNTY.

DS
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:45 PM EST, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
545 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL
800 PM EST...

...A TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIANA UNTIL 1000 PM EST...

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA...

AT 545PM EST THERE WERE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR INDIANA.

RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA EAST TO NEAR RICHMOND IN EASTERN INDIANA.

EP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 1:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe32 min
Jun 2, 1:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone42 min
Jun 2, 2:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks37 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWarren47 min
Jun 2, 3:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Tippecanoe26 min
Jun 2, 4:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain, Vermillion43 min
Jun 2, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery35 min
Jun 2, 5:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks, Putnam38 min
Jun 2, 6:05 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMarion25 min
Jun 2, 6:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHamilton26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1987Every 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.