Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1989, 6:33 PM EST for Allen County, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports 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
- May 31, 1989, 6:33 PM EST (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1989, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, IN, DeKalb 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:35 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | De Kalb, IN | |
| May 31, 6:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Allen, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 3:58 PM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 400 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM 3 PM EST OR 4 PM EDT TO 9 PM EST OR 10 PM EDT... ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN OHIO FROM MIDNIGHT TIL NOON THURSDAY... AT 355 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED 20 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOGANSPORT IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND SMALL STREAMS MAY OCCURR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN WABASH...SOUTHERN WHITLEY AND ALLEN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...AND ACROSS PAULDING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO. BY 445 PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 40 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR DEFIANCE OHIO TO 30 MILES WEST WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR 10 .MILES NORTH OF WABASH. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:00 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 400 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM 3 PM EST OR 4 PM EDT TO 9 PM EST OR 10 PM EDT... ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN OHIO FROM MIDNIGHT TIL NOON THURSDAY... AT 355 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED 20 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOGANSPORT IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND SMALL STREAMS MAY OCCURR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN WABASH...SOUTHERN WHITLEY AND ALLEN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...AND ACROSS PAULDING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO. BY 445 PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 40 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR DEFIANCE OHIO TO 30 MILES WEST WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR 1/0 MILES NORTH OF WABASH. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:12 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 410 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM 3 PM EST OR 4 PM EDT TO 9 PM EST OR 10 PM EDT... ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN OHIO FROM MIDNIGHT TIL NOON THURSDAY... AT 355 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOGANSPORT IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND SMALL STREAMS MAY OCCURR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN WABASH...SOUTHERN WHITLEY AND ALLEN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...AND ACROSS PAULDING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO. BY 445 PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 40 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR DEFIANCE OHIO TO 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OEF FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES NORTH OF WABASH. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:39 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 435 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 9PM EST...10PM EDT... AT 430 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF GARY INDIANA...NORTHEAST THROUGH LA PORTE AND CONTINUING TO THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY IN INDIANA. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN FROM 5 MILES EAST OF BENTON HARBOR AND EXTENDED NORTHEAST TO NEAR PAW PAW MICHIGAN. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THcE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ARNOLD
Special weather statement, May 31, 5:06 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 505 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM 3 PM EST OR 4 PM EDT TO 9 PM EST OR 10 PM EDT... ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN OHIO FROM MIDNIGHT TIL NOON THURSDAY... AT 500 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR PAULDING OHIO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PAULDING COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND SMALL STREAMS. BY 545 PM EST THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEFIANCE OHIO. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR 5 MILES EAST OF AUBURN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BY 545 PM EST THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR EDGERTON BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 31, 5:26 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 525 PM EST WED MAY 31 1989 ..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 9PM EST...10PM EDT... AT 520 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA...SOUTHWEST THROUGH ELKHART INDIANA AND CONTINUED TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN WAS RECORDED AT THE WEATHER SERVICE BETWEEN 445 PM EST AND 515 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. ARNOLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 31 min |
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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.