Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1989, 10:06 PM EST for Adams County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1989, 10:06 PM EST (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1989, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, IN, Wells 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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, 4:43 PM EST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 444 PM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 7 PM EST... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AS OF 440 PM NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHEAST INDIANA OR THE NORTHWEST OHIO COUNTIES OF WILLIAMS...DEFIANCE OR PAULDING. THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM LOGANSPORT TO JUST EAST OF MARION. THIS AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. AT 440 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:01 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 701 PM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 1 AM EST... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA THAT WAS TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 1 AM EST. THIS INCLUDES ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA EXCEPT FOR LAGRANGE...STEUBEN...NOBLE AND DEKALB COUNTIES. THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF WILLIAMS... DEFIANCE AND PAULDING. AT 655 PM EST /755 PM EDT/ AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN COVER NEARLY ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO. ALSO AT 655 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...JUST WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES REMAIN POSSIBLE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO THE REST OF THIS EVENJING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:36 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 736 PM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 1 AM EST... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 732 PM EST AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES EAST OF LOGANSPORT TO 15 MILES WEST OF MARION. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES ACROSS WABASH AND GRANT COUNTIES BY 8 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE A SMALL TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. BY 800 PM EST THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL STREJTCH FROM 10 MILES WEST OF HUNTINGTON NEAR ANDREWS TO 10 MILES EAST OF MARION NEAR UPLAND. . ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:09 PM EST, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 910 PM EST THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 1 AM EST... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 900 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE...NEAR HARLAN...TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE...NEAR CONVOY, OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. BY 930 PM OR 1030 PM EDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE 15 MILES WEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR MONROEVILLE INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 25 min |
| May 25, 9:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 40 min |
| May 25, 10:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 35 min |
| May 25, 11:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Jay | 2 hr |
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.