Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1989, 2:59 AM CDT for Jasper County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1989, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1989, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper 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
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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, May 25, 1:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 140 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...LA GRANGE...RENSSELAER... LOGANSPORT...LAFAYETTE AND ROCHESTER REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AT 130 AM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDEgRSTORMS FROM CHICAGO SOUTHWEST TO DECATUR ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. GERY
Special weather statement, May 25, 1:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTIONS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 148 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 40 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...LA GRANGE...RENSSELAER... LOGANSPORT...LAFAYETTE AND ROCHESTER REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AT 130 AM EST RvADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM CHICAGO SOUTHWEST TO DECATUR ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WJG CORRECTION FOR LINE LOCATION..
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:37 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 235 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989 A POWERFUL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ENTERING NORTHWEST INDIANA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600AM EST FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA WHICH IS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 40 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...LA GRANGE...RENSSELAER... LOGANSPORT...LAFAYETTE AND ROCHESTER. AT 230 AM EST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO DECATUR IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE CHICAGO OFFICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAKE COUNTY INDIANA UNTIL 315 AM EST. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST INDIANA. LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT WAS INDICATING INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN LAKE COUNTY INDIANA AND ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON ILLINOIS. . PERSONS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 245AM AND 400AM EST THIS EARLY MORNING. EDWARDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Elkhart, Marshall | 44 min |
| May 25, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fulton, Kosciusko | 43 min |
| May 25, 6:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan | 35 min |
| May 25, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 41 min |
| May 25, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 26 min |
| May 25, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 41 min |
| May 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 45 min |
| May 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion | 33 min |
| May 25, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 44 min |
| May 25, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Crawford, Jasper | 68 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.