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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 30, 1987Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1987, 4:06 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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: May 30, 1987, 4:06 PM EST (21:06 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1987, 4:50 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Rush 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
May 30, 4:25 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Rush, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 302106
TORIND
INC139-302150-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
406 PM EST SAT MAY 30 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
CENTRAL INDIANA... EASTERN RUSH
 
AT 400 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES NORTH OF RUSHVILLE...30
MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS...BY THE RUSH COUNTY
SHERIFF. THE TORNADO WA2S MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.  GO TO YOUR BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  AVOID WINDOWS
AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING GLASS AND DEBRIS.
 
OK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks	28 min
May 29, 7:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	33 min
May 30, 3:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison	48 min
May 30, 3:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	59 min
May 30, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marshall, Saint Joseph	47 min
May 30, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	38 min
May 30, 4:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry, Wayne	46 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.