Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1989, 11:15 PM EST for Carroll County, Clinton County, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1989, 11:15 PM EST (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1989, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Tippecanoe 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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, Aug 5, 5:48 PM EST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 550 PM EST SAT AUG 5 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 545 PM EST THERE WERE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...STRONG GUSwTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...JUST WEST OF SPENCER AND NEAR SULLIVAN. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA FROM CROTHERSVILLE TO MADISON. ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 10:01 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 7:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 7:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 7:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 8:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 82 min |
| Aug 5, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warrick | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 8:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 11:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 1:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 1:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 2:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 8:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Christian | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 11:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Crawford, Jasper | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.