Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 1988, 8:02 PM EST for Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1988, 8:02 PM EST (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1988, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko 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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Oct 17, 5:04 PM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 505 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EST FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE AT 455 PM. THE STORM WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF LAFAYETTE AND WILL BE NEAR DELPHI BY 530 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCUR IN THE STORM. HAIL IS POSSIBLE. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA FROM FORT WAYNE TO BETWEEN MUNCIE AND RICHMOND THROUGH RUSHVILLE AND BLOOMINGTON TO BLOOMFIELD. ANOTHER AREA WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA FROM AROUND CRAWFORDSVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF DtANVILLE ILLINOIS. A THIRD AREA OF STORMS WAS FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE TO NEAR DANVILLE ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NEAR 50 MILES PER HOUR. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:40 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 540 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 530 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE...REACHED FROM BETWEEN MUNCIE AND RICHMOND THROUGH COLUMBUS TO NEAR BEDFORD. A SECOND AREA...ALSO ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE...WAS FROM LOGANSPORT THROUGH CRAWFORDSVILLE AND CLINTON TO MARTINSVILLE ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES PER HOUR. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH ILLINOIS AND WILL BE INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA EARLY THIS EVENING. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 6:13 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 610 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 600 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST THROUGH WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE IN AN AREA...ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE FROM KOKOMO...THROUGH LEBANON AND GREENCASTLE TO JUST SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE. HEAVY RAINFALL IN PARTS OF THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA UNTIL AROUND 7 PM ...MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES AND POORLY DRAINED STREETS. THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST THROUGH EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA FROM AROUND RICHMOND TO DEPUTY. MORE TH)UNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A COLD FRONT...MOVING EAST THROUGH ILLINOIS. THOSE STORMS WERE JUST MOVING INTO FAR NORTHWEST INDIANA AND WILL BE INTO WEST CENTRAL INDIANA BY 800 PM. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 6:54 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 655 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 645 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. IN CENTRAL INDIANA...AN AREA OF STORMS WAS FROM NEAR DANVILLE...SOUTH TO SPENCER AND WORTHINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA UNTIL AROUND 730 PM. SOME STREET FLOODING MAY OCCUR. IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...AN AREA OF STORMS WAS FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO OXFORD. THAT AREA WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES PER HOUR AND EXTUENDED SOUTHWEST INTO ILLINOIS. SHOWERS WERE ALONG THE INDIANA AND OHIO BORDER...MOVING EAST. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 7:04 PM EST, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 705 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS SOUTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS AT 655 PM EST. THE STORM WAS MOVING THROUGH RUSHVILLE AND WILL BE NEAR CONNERSVILLE AROUND 730 PM. FLOODING OF STREETS AND UNDERPASSES IS POSSIBLE IN RUSHVILLE AND CONNERSVILLE. DS`
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 7:40 PM EST, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 735 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH NORTHERN INDIANA AT 725 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE WABASH RIVER FROM NEAR FORT WAYNE... THROUGH LAFAYETTE TO DANVILLE ILLINOIS. FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES AND STREETS IN URBAN AREAS IS POSSIBLE. A SMALLER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM THE EAST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS THROUGH BLOOMINGTON TO NEAR BLOOMFIELD. ANOTHER AREA WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA FROM RICHMOND...THROUGH BROOKVILLE TO NEAR MILAN. BOTH AREAS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL INDIANA AROUND 800 PM. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 7:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 119 min |
| Oct 17, 7:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | LaPorte | 119 min |
| Oct 17, 9:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke | 23 min |
| Oct 17, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 45 min |
| Oct 17, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 52 min |
| Oct 18, 12:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Union | 27 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.