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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 25, 1989Fulton County, Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1989, 4:17 AM EST for Fulton County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1989, 4:17 AM EST (09:17 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1989, 5:00 AM EST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, IN, Kosciusko 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1989-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1989-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 EST, 2 hours 36 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 EST, 2 hours 28 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 EST, 1 hour 40 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
Special weather statement, May 25, 3:57 AM EST, 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 25, 4:04 AM EST, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
400 AM EST THU MAY 25 1989

IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTROM  WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 AM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...
NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLUFFTON TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST
OF LAFAYETTE AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FOR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAFAYETTE TO ANGOLA.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... FORT WAYNE...HUNTINGTON...ANGOLA...
BLUFFTON AND NORTH MANCHESTER.

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 AN?D POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

WJG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLaPorte, Saint Joseph47 min
May 25, 2:59 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJasper31 min
May 25, 3:01 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDElkhart, Marshall44 min
May 25, 6:18 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDMontgomery, Parke, Putnam3 hr
May 25, 3:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSullivan35 min
May 25, 4:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDKnox41 min
May 25, 4:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene26 min
May 25, 5:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke, Vermillion41 min
May 25, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery, Parke, Putnam45 min
May 25, 6:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hendricks50 min
May 25, 6:57 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHendricks, Marion33 min
May 25, 2:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay44 min
May 25, 3:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCrawford, Jasper68 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.