Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1988, 9:48 PM EST for Blackford County, Grant County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1988, 9:48 PM EST (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1988, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN, Wells 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 160249
SVRFWA
INC009-053-179-160330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
948 PM EST FRI JUL 15 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
...BLACKFORD...NORTHEASTERN GRANT...SOUTHWESTERN WELLS
AT 945 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MARION MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIO-R ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
ZIMMERMANWhat 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, Jul 15, 4:50 PM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR EXCESSIVE HEAT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 450 PM EST FRI JUL 15 1988 ...LARGE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 445 PM EST RADAR AT SOUTH BEND SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA NEAR PAW PAW IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AND THE PRESENT TRACK WOULD PUT THE STORMS NEAR THREE RIVERS IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AROUND 530 PM EST. THESE ARE STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUST WIND...HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND MOST SURELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JH
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:40 PM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 540 PM EST FRI JUL 15 1988 ...LARGE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 535 PM EST RADAR AT SOUTH BEND SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA NEAR DECATUR MICHIGAN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IS BETWEEN COLOMA AND DECATUR MICHIGAN. THE MOVE- MENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND TO) NEAR THREE RIVERS MICHIGAN. THESE ARE STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUST WIND...HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND MOST SURELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JH
Local storm report, Jul 15, 9:08 PM EST, 40 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
910 PM EST FRI JUL 15 1988
TIME EVENT
1820EST CASS COUNTY MICHIGAN SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS
LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN OVER THE COUNTY AND SCATTERED POWER
OUTAGES.
1850EST RAINFALL OBSERVER REPORTED WINDS 60 MPH OR GREATER...
NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN...AND 1.73 INCH RAINFALL IN 45 MINUTES
AT SHAVEHEAD LAKE IN SOUTHEAST CASS COUNTY MICHIGAN.
1858EST 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS DOWNED TREES 2 TO 3 FEET IN DIAMETER NEAR
VISTULA INDIANA IN NORTHEAST ELKHART COUNTY.
1925EST WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND CAUSED SOME
POWER OUTAGES AT NAPANEE INDIANA IN SOUTHERN ELKHART COUNTY.
2015EST KOSCIUSKO COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS POWER
OUTAGES AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON HOUSES THROUGHOUT
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY INDIANA.
NUMEROUS REPORTS RECEIVED OF 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH DIAMETER
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA.
MOWERYSpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 9:39 PM EST, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 938 PM EST FRI JUL 15 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA FROM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BEND TO 25 MILES NORTH OF KOKOMO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 15 MPH AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE ANY DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. MOWERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.