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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Indianapolis, IN

October 18, 1988Union County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1988, 12:53 AM EST for Union County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 1988, 12:53 AM EST (05:53 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 1988, 1:20 AM EST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, IN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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, 8:28 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
825 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS
OF INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA
AT 815 PM EST.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A COLD FRONT FROM BETWEEN SOUTH BEND AND
GARY...THROUGH DANVILLE ILLINOIS TO ST LOUIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES PER HOUR ARE
LIKELY WITH THOSE STORMS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
ALSO BE LIKELY. THE COLD FRONT WILL BE REACHING LAFAYETTE AROUND 9 PM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA BETWEEN
DANVILLE ILLINOIS AND INDIANAPOLIS...AND OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST
CENTRAL INDIANA FROM AROUND NEW CASTLE THROUGH RUSHVILLE TO COLUMBUS
AND BEDFORD. THOSE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR ALSO.

DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 9:01 PM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
855 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR INDIANA HAS EXPIRED.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF THE STATE AT 845 PM. WHILE
SOME OF THE STORMS WERE STILL STRONG...THERE WAS LITTLE POTENTIAL
FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS.

AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA ALONG THE WABASH
RIVER FROM NEAR FORT WAYNE...THROUGH LOGANSPORT AND LAFAYETTE TO
NEAR DANVILLE ILLINOIS. SOME OF THE STORMS HAD HEAVY RAINFALL.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA FROM
INDIANAPOLIS TO DANVILLE ILLINOIS AND TERRE HAUTE. A THIRD AREA WAS
DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA FROM AROUND SEYMOUR...THROUGH MITCHELL
TO EVANSVILLE.

THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. IT WAS
DIMINISHING OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA. A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
THROUGH THAT PART OF THE STATE.

PRECIPITATION WILL SPREADING INTO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE
BY 10 PM.

DS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 10:04 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 17, 11:56 PM EST, 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 18, 12:21 AM EST, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 7:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDElkhart, Saint Joseph119 min
Oct 17, 7:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDLaPorte119 min
Oct 17, 8:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDElkhart, Kosciusko28 min
Oct 17, 9:22 PM ESTTornado WarningINDParke23 min
Oct 17, 10:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion45 min
Oct 17, 10:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock52 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.