Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1990, 8:31 PM CDT for Spencer County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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
- May 16, 1990, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1990, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spencer 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 16, 8:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Spencer, 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 14.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KEVV 170132
SVREVV
INC125-147-170215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
831 PM CDT (831 PM EST) WED MAY 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT (915 PM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
...PIKE...SPENCER
AT 829 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSORMS WERE IN GIBSON AND WARRICK
COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EVANSVILLE.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
REACH THE TOWNS OF ROCKPORT...GRANDVIEW IN SPENCER COUNTY BY 845 PM
CDT AND SPURGEON AND WINSLOW INDIANA IN PIKE COUNTY BY 850 PM CDT.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULKD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
SPODENWhat 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
Local storm report, May 16, 4:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 410 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 MAY 16TH STORM DAMAGE...LATE REPORT JST BEFORE 5AM...6 MILES SOUTH OF TRAFALGAR IN..11/2 MILES NORTH OF THE JOHNSON/BROWN COUNTY LINE..AT LAMB LAKE. LOUD ROAR...FELT LARGE PRESSURE CHANGE..HAD SEVERAL WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF HOUSE. NUMEROUS 3 TO 4 FOOT DIAMETER TREES UPROOTED. TOPS OF SEVERAL LARGE TREES HAD TOPS TWISTED OFF ABOUT 35 FT ABOVE THE GROUND. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
INZ011>015-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 545 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 IN INDIANA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...BLOOMINGTON...VINCENNES... EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS...MADISON...SALEM AND JASPER. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
INZ011>015-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME IN HEADER... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 445 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 IN INDIANA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...BLOOMINGTON...VINCENNES... EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS...MADISON...SALEM AND JASPER. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
INZ011>015-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 535 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA FOR TONIGHT. AT 530 PM EST...SHOWERS WERE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...BETWEEN TERRE HAUTE AND LINTON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. FARTHER SOUTH...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO MADISON. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE K%ENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:21 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
INZ011>015-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 817 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 THE TORNADO WATCH 251 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 30 MILES WEST OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...VINCENNES...EVANSVILLE...JASPER ...SALEM...MADISON AND BEDFORD. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AS WELL AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS ANDS POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS TORNAD7O WATCH 251 REPLACED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. KOLDITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 16, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Posey | 49 min |
| May 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Gibson, Vanderburgh | 53 min |
| May 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warrick | 43 min |
| May 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Pike | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Dubois, Perry | 67 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.