Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
335 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR PARTS OF
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA. THE WATCH AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE
FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE.

AT 330 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
IN NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE FROM 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MOROCCO TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOROCCO...MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST INDIANA NEAR
COLUMBIA CITY.

A FEW OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. ONE WAS
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON AND ANOTHER WAS 15 MILES EAST
OF BLOOMINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN.

LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN DO TORNADOES...HURRICANES...OR
FLOODS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUzTSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING BY STAYING AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS
SUCH AS TREES AND TELEPHONE POLES. STAY OFF HILLTOPS.

DF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
415 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THAT PART OF
INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15
MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE.

AS OF 415 PM EST NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED IN INDIANA.

AT 410 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM COLUMBIA CITY...
15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...TO MONTICELLO...ABOUT 15 MILES
WEST OF LOGANSPORT. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST PULASKI
AND EASTERN FULTON COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE 30 AND 35 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND. THESE STORMS PRODUCED 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS
EARLIER IN NEWTON AND JASPER COUNTIES.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.
A FEW STORMS WERE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF VINCENNES WHILE ISOLATED
STORMS WERE NEAR SHELBYVILLE AND RICHMOND. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.

LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN DO TORNADOES...HURRICANES...OR
FLOODS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING BY STAYING AWAY FROM LAKES AND PONDS.
A GOOD SAFE SHELTER FROM LIGHTNING IS INSIDE A VEHICLE.

DF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
448 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THAT PART OF
INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15
MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE.

AT 445 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
RUSHVILLE OR ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS.  BETWEEN 400 PM
AND 430 PM THERE WAS A REPORT OF A TREE BLOWN ONTO A HOUSE ABOUT
8 MILES SOUTH OF RUSHVILLE NEAR THE TOWN OF MILROY AS THIS
THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH.

IN ADDITION...RADAR ALSO SHOWED THAT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WAYNE TO JUST NORTH OF LOGANSPORT AND THEN
WESTWARD INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHERN INDIANA SHOULD BE READY TO
SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN DO TORNADOES...HURRICANES...OR
FLOODS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING BY STAYING AWAY FROM LAKES AND PONDS.
A GOOD SAFE SHELTER FROM LIGHTNING IS INSIDE A VEHICLE.

HENDRICKSON

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
520 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR MUCH
OF NORTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE WATCH AREA IS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 30 SOUTH OF GARY TO WARSAW
TO 10 EAST OF GOSHEN...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE.

AT 507 PM EST...THE STATE POLICE REPORTED SEVERAL ONE FOOT DIAMETER
TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AT DENVER. DENVER IS 10 MILES NORTH OF PERU IN
MIAMI COUNTY.

AT 515 PM EST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS
OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA.

THE MOST THREATENING STORM WAS OVER WABASH COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EAST
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
.
PERSONS IN PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD BE READY TO
SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN DO TORNADOES...HURRICANES...OR
FLOODS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING BY STAYING AWAY FROM LAKES AND PONDS.
A GOOD SAFE SHELTER FROM LIGHTNING IS INSIDE A VEHICLE.
STEIGERWALDT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
553 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR MUCH
OF NORTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA.

AT 545 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH
OF BROOKVILLE IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA.  THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE
STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES INTO
SOUTHWEST OHIO.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR FORT WAYNE TO NEAR
KOKOMO AND THEN FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE AND CRAWFORDSVILLE TO
CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS.

A THIRD AREA OF THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 20 MILES
SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON TO NEAR EVANSVILLE.

ALL OF THESE THUNDERST9ORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
HENDRICKSON

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
625 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR MUCH
OF NORTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA.

AT 620 PM EST RADAR INDICATED THAT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED ACROSS PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.
THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR ELWOOD AND TIPTON TO CRAWFORDSVILLE AND
ON WESTWARD INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF TIPTON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PERSONS WHO LIVE NEAR ANDERSON...AND TO THE NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS AND
TERRE HAUTE...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS HAND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL BETWEEN 630 PM AND 800 PM EST AS THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.
HENDRICKSON