Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1987, 3:47 PM EST for Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports 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 14, 1987, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1987, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Noble 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Whitley, IN | |
| May 14, 4:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Noble, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 142047 SVRFWA INC113-183-142115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 347 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...NOBLE AND NORTHERN WHITLEY AT 323 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHW EST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA CITY INDIANA MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. HAYES
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, May 14, 1:51 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 150 PM EST THU MAY 14 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 1.45 PM EST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED IN ELKHART COUNTY AND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER THE WEST HALF OF LAGRANGE AND NOBLE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA BY 2.40 PM. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. PS
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:37 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 240 PM EST THU MAY 14 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST... ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 2.35 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERED LAGRANGE COUNTY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE CITY OF LAGRANGE OR ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVIONG TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS OVER ANGOLA IN STEUBEN COUNTY THEN INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO BY 330 PM EST ...430 PM OHIO TIME... HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL =CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PS
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:46 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 240 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 .....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.... AT 230 PM EST...THERE WERE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED THRU NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE ONLY A FEW MILES WIDE BUT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WITH STRONG GUSTY WIND POSSIBLE. THEY WERE GENERALLY LOCATED IN A 50 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR RENSSELEAR INDIANA NORTHEAST THRU SOUTH BEND TO LANSING MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHERG REPORTED. JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 31 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.