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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 1, 1989Madison County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1989, 6:24 PM EST for Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1989, 6:24 PM EST (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1989, 6:55 PM EST
In force: 31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 012325
SVRIND
INC095-020000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
624 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
          ...SOUTHERN MADISON
 
A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT 42ND AND POST ROAD
ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS AT 615 PM EST.
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
EXTREME SOUTHEAST HAMILTON COUNTY OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST
OF INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES
AND HOUR AND WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE CITY OF PENDLETON.
 
PERSONS IN  SOUTHER MADISON COUNTY AND THE CITY OF PENDLETON
SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
SMALL TORNADOES CAN OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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, 4 hours 57 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

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:52 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
350 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989

AT 340 PM RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CARROLL COUNTY...
25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE...NEAR THE TOWNS OF CUTLER AND
WHEELING.

THESE STORMS WILL HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. SOME HAIL
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AN WILL MOVE INTO
WEST HOWARD COUNTY AND REACH KOKOMO BY 410 PM EST.

AT 343 PM EST AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED .70 OF AN INCH IN
20 MINUTES IN REYNOLDS IN WHITE COUNTY...20 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE
...AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH.

BG

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 4:14 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
412 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR MUCH
OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

SOME INDIANA CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE...LAFAYETTE...LOGANSPORT...
FORT WAYNE...INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...RICHMOND...TERRE HAUTE AND
BLOOMINGTON.

AT 400 PM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF
INDIANA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF KOKOMO. AT 359
PM EST THE PUBLIC REPORT OF A FUNNEL WAS RELAYED BY THE HOWARD COUNTY
SHERIFF 4 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF KOKOMO.

AT 359 PM EST THE BURLINGTON TOWN MARSHALL REPORTED ZERO VISIBILITY
..15 MILES WEST OF KOKOMO.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE
TO 15 MILES NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE.

BG

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:24 PM EST, 2 hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
420 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989

408 PM EST   DAMAGE TO ROOFS AND MOBILE HOMES IN KOKOMO...IN
             HOWARD COUNTY. RELAYED BY INDIANA STATE POLICE.

BG

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:37 PM EST, 47 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
53840 PM EST THU JUN 1 1989

THE  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA.

THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEWPORT TO
CRAWFORDSVILLE TO KOKOMO TO MARION TO NEAR DECATUR INDIANA.

THE WATCH STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF
CENTRAL INDIANA.

SOME INDIANA CITqIES STILL IN THE WATCH INCLUDE...INDIANAPOLIS...
MUNCIE...RICHMOND...TERRE HAUTE AND BLOOMINGTON.

CURRAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Saint Joseph	35 min
Jun 1, 8:22 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Elkhart	3 hr
Jun 1, 9:00 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Saint Joseph	3 hr
Jun 1, 1:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard, Tipton	27 min
Jun 1, 2:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	53 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	47 min
Jun 1, 3:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware	35 min
Jun 1, 5:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	30 min
Jun 1, 5:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	44 min
Jun 1, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Posey	42 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warrick	43 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vanderburgh	18 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1989 Every 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.