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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1987Decatur County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 10:34 PM EST for Decatur County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 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, 10:34 PM EST (03:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1987, 11:00 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur 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, 10:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Decatur, 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 030334
SVRIND
INC031-030400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1034 PM EST TUE JUN 2 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY OF

SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...DECATUR

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF GREENSBURG.

AT 1030 PM EST...TREES WERE UPROOTED AND REPORTED DOWN NEAR
INTERSTATE 65 AND STATE ROAD 58 ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBUS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY  RADAR JUST EAST OF COLUMBUS
AT 1030 PM EST. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
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THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSE LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY
WINDS.

EDWARDS

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, 4:40 PM EST, 5 hours 54 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, 5 hours 45 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, 5 hours 30 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, 5 hours 9 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, 4 hours 49 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

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 9:15 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS CANCELLED THE
TORNADO WATCH FOR INDIANA...

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST FOR RANDOLPH
COUNTY AND FOR SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL INDIANA...

RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW NUMaEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 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, 7:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	19 min
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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.