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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 1, 1989Madison County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1989, 2:22 PM EST for Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1989, 2:22 PM EST (19:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1989, 3:15 PM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, IN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 1, 2:53 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 0Madison, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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, Jun 1, 1:27 PM EST, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
125 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL INDIANA...

AT 120 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTRORMS WERE 40 MILES NORTH OF
INDIANAPOLIS...AROUND AND JUST NORTH OF FRANKFORT. THE STORMS WERE
EAST AND WILL BE PASSING BETWEEN KOKOMO AND TIPTON BY 215PM.

THE STORMS WILL HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNIGHT AND HEAVY RAIN. HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY.

OTHER STORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER CENTRAL INDIANA AND MOVING
EAST.

DS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSaint Joseph35 min
Jun 1, 8:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDElkhart3 hr
Jun 1, 9:00 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDSaint Joseph3 hr
Jun 1, 1:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHoward, Tipton27 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe47 min
Jun 1, 3:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware35 min
Jun 1, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery30 min
Jun 1, 5:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone44 min
Jun 1, 5:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPosey42 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWarrick43 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVanderburgh18 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMadison31 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay33 min
Jun 1, 3:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDEdwards25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.