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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Randolph County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 7:51 PM EST for Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1987, 7:51 PM EST (00:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1987, 8:10 PM EST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 2296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 030051
SVRIND
INC135-030110-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
751 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 810 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
EAST CENTRAL INDIANA... EAST RANDOLPH
                                                                         
AT 745 PM ESTA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF LYNN...OR 18 
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MUNCIE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR RANDOLPH UNTIL 900 PM EST. HEAVY 
RAINFALL WILL OCCUR  WITH THIS STORM.  
 
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 BUSINESS.
 
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, 4:32 PM EST, 3 hours 19 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, 3 hours 11 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, 3 hours 2 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, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 26 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, 2 hours 6 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 8:50 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Delaware, Randolph	4 hr
Jun 2, 9:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	38 min
Jun 2, 10:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	33 min
Jun 2, 10:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	26 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.