Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1987, 4:00 PM EST for Huntington County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1987, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1987, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huntington County, IN, Whitley 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 142100 SVRFWA INC069-183-142130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 400 PM EST TUE APR 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHWEST HUNTINGTON AND WHITLEY AT 354 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 10 MILES WEST OF HUNTINGTON IN NORTHEAST INDIANA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. AT 345 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT WABASH INDIANA. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..LARGE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, Apr 14, 2:51 PM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 250 PM EST TUE APR 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 245 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION IN GRANT COUNTY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF KOKOMO IN HOWARD COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BY 345PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM MARION TO 45 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR AKRON IN FULTON COUNTY INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN, SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA. HAYES
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 3:02 PM EST, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 300 PM EST TUE APR 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SHOWERS IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 3PM EST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN...NORTHEST ILLINOIS...AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED FROM GARY INDIANA TO VALPARAISO INDIANA AND NEAR WINAMAC AND LOGANSPORT INDIANA. OTHER SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN FROM STURGIS TO DECATUR AND IN THE BARRIEN SPRINGS AREA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 40 MPH. MOWERY
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 3:40 PM EST, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 340 PM EST TUE APR 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFING IN NORTHERN INDIANA... AT 330 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN A LINE ABOUT 10 MILES WIDE THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF MICHIGAN CITY INDIANA...25 MILES WEST OF SOUTH BEND...THROUGH ROCHESTER INDIANA... 40 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BEND...TO NEAR WABASH INDIANA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND RAODWAYS WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES NORTH AT 30 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MOST OF NORTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...AND SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. MOWERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.