Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1987, 5:14 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1987, 5:14 PM EST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1987, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wabash 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 142214 SVRFWA INC169-142245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 514 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...NORTHERN WABASH AT 513 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 40 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 510 PM EST WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AT ROANN INDIANA. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORECED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. 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, 2:37 PM EST, 2 hours 37 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, 2 hours 28 minutes 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
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:48 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 340 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 .....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.... AT 335 PM EST...THERE WERE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED THRU NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA WERE JUST NORTH OF WINAMAC AND RENSELER INDIANA AND ALSO A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR THREE RIVERS IN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF LARGER AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN TO NEAR ELKHART INDIANA TO ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE HAS SMALL HAIL REPORTED IN SOUTH BEND NEAR THE IRONWOOD AND CLEVELAND ROAD AREA ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN. THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTED DURING THE PAST HOUR. LWM
Special weather statement, May 14, 4:19 PM EST, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 420 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST INDINA UNTIL 800 PM EST... AT 410PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WERE LOCATED FROM FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA OR NEAR ALBION IN NOBLE COUNTY TO 45 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR AKRON IN FULTON COUNTY. THESE STORM WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. BY 500 PM EST THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE TO 35 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR NORTH MANCHESTER IN WABASH COUNTY. HAYES
Special weather statement, May 14, 4:44 PM EST, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 440 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 .....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.... AT 435 PM EST...A 50 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME VERY HEAVY EXTENDED FROM NEAR COLDWATER IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH PLYMOUTH INDIANA...TO ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF STURGIS AND NEAR COLDWATER...AND IN INDIANA THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF LOGANSPORT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTED DURING THE PAST HOUR. LWM
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:03 PM EST, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 500 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 800PM EST... AT 450 PM EST WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA OR NEAR TOPEKA IN LAGRANGE COUNTY...ALSO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLOMBIA CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 45 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE IN FULTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. BY 600 PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED 40 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE OR N EAR ANGOLA IN STEUBEN COUNTY, ALSO 15 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE AND 30 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR NORTH MANCHESTER. HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble, Whitley | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.