Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 5:24 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1990, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1990, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 3624 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 16.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSBN 282125
SVRSBN
MIC021-282230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
424 PM EST (524 PM EDT) TUE AUG 28 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EST (630 PM EDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
...BERRIEN
AT 420 PM EST/520 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
LAKE MICHIGAN 15 MILES WEST OF BENTON HARBOR MICHIGAN...OR 27 MILES
NORTH NORTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BENTON HARBOR...BERRIEN
SPRINGS...AND GLENDORA.
6A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, Aug 28, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 155 PM EST TUE AUG 28 1989 IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 692 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... EAST OF LINE FROM SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO TO WINCHESTER. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... KOKOMO...ELKHART...ANGOLA...WARSAW... FORT WAYNE...MARION...TIPTON...MUNCIE AND WINCHESTER. 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
INZ002-003-005-006-010-282000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 155 PM EST TUE AUG 28 1990 IN INDIANA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 692 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... EAST OF LINE FROM SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO TO WINCHESTER. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... KOKOMO...ELKHART...ANGOLA...WARSAW... FORT WAYNE...MARION...TIPTON...MUNCIE AND WINCHESTER. 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. CORRECTION TO YEAR
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
INZ001>006-010-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 230 PM EST TUE AUG 28 1990 TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THESE TWO WATCHES IS FROM SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTH KOKOMO. THE WESTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST...THE EASTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 225 PM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTERME NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS. ONE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR SOUTH BEND. THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ST. JOSEPH AND SOUTHERN ELKHART COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... KOKOMO...ELKHART...ANGOLA...WARSAW... FORT WAYNE...MARION...TIPTON...MUNCIE...WINCHESTER...SOUTH BEND... ROCHERSTER...LOGANSPORT...VALPARAISO...LAPORTE...MONTICELLO AND RENSSELAER. 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 STATEMENTSY AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WJG
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:27 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
INZ001>006-010-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 320 PM EST TUE AUG 28 1990 TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THESE TWO WATCHES IS FROM SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO. THE WESTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST...THE EASTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST. AT 315 PM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTERME NORTHERN INDIANA BETWEEN SOUTH BEND AND FORT WAYNE THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICIES AT BOTH SOUTH BEND AND FORT WAYNE HAVE ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR SOME COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ELKHART COUNTY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM. ANOTHER WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM FOR SOUTHERN LAGRANGE AND NOBLE COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WHICH PRODUCED 1 1/2 HAIL IN ROCKFORD ILLINOIS WAS CONTINUING TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM EST. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... KOKOMO...ELKHART...ANGOLA...WARSAW... FORT WAYNE...MARION...TIPTON...MUNCIE...WINCHESTER...SOUTH BEND... ROCHERSTER...LOGANSPORT...VALPARAISO...LAPORTE...MONTICELLO AND RENSSELAER. 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. WJG
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 5:06 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
INZ001>006-010-282210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 405 PM EST TUE AUG 28 1990 TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THESE TWO WATCHES IS FROM SOUTH BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO. THE WESTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST...THE EASTERN WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREAS ARE SOUTH BEND...KOKOMO... ELKHART...ANGOLA...WARSAW...FORT WAYNE...MUNCIE AND RENSSELAER. AT 400 PM EST RADAR SHOWED DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS 30 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO AND OTHERS OVER NORTHEAST INDIANA BETWEEN SOUTH BEND AND TO THE NORTH OF FORT WAYNE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. . PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGERWALDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Berrien | 68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.