Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1988, 9:22 PM EST for Parke County, Indiana. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1988, 9:22 PM EST (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1988, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Parke 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
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 614 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 543 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KIND 180223
TORIND
INC121-180245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
922 PM EST MON OCT 17 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
...PARKE
AT 915 PM EST AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED A TORNADO IN CLINTO.
A BARN WAS ALSO REPORTED BLOWN DOWN 1 MILE WEST OF CLINTON NEAR NEAR
HIGHWAYS 36 AND 63. CLINTON IS 12 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE.
RADAR SHOWS THIS STORM TO BE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ROSEDALE AND ROCKVILLE.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
HENDRICKSONWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 6:13 PM EST, 3 hours 9 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, 2 hours 28 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, 2 hours 18 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, 1 hour 42 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
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 8:28 PM EST, 54 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, 21 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
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, 8:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 28 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 |
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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.