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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 8, 1990Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky; Posey County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 4:23 PM CDT for Henderson County, Union County, Kentucky; Posey County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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
Jun 8, 1990, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Posey County, IN, Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 4:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Union, KY
Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Henderson, KY

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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1990-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1990-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 082124 RRA
SVREVV
INC129-KYC101-225-082200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
423 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
          ...POSEY
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
          ...HENDERSON...UNION
 
AT 420 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF
EVANSVILLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER...FROM MT VERNON INDIANA
TO NEAR UNIONTOWN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A 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.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLEs 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 SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
RUNNELS

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 8, 2:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
INZALL-080200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
242 AM EST FRI JUN 8 1990

IN INDIANA THE TORNADO WATCH IS FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN
INDIANA BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE EXTREME NORTH OR WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.
THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST.

THE WATCH AREA IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MONTICELLO...EAST OF A LINE FORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MONTICELLO TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENCASTLE...AND NORTH OF A LINE
FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENCASTLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND.

LAFAYETTE...KOKOMO...FORT WAYNE...INDIANAPOLIS...ANDERSON...MUNCIE AND
RICHMOND ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH.

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTH AND
CENTRAL INDIANA AT 240 PM EST.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
INZALL-080200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
315 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990

IN INDIANA THE TORNADO WATCH IS FOR PART OF WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
UNTIL 900 PM EST.

THE WATCH AREA IS WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE
TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON. ATTICA...TERRE HAUTE...AND
VINCENNES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH.

AT 315 PM WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF
NORTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA AND ALSO OVER PART OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
INZALL-090200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
345 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990

TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND
FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST.  IT DOES NOT INCLUDE
EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA OR EXTREME SOUTHERN OR SOUTHEAST INDIANA.

THE AREA INCLUDED IN THE WATHCHES ARE FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF
A LINE FROM FORT WAYNE TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYATTE...AND NORTH OF
A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF GREEN CASTLE AND 20 MILES
SOUTH OF RICHMOND.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCHES ARE LAFAYATTE...KOKOMO...
FORT WAYNE ...INDIANAPOLIS...ANDERSON...MUNCIE AND TERRE HAUTE.

SO FAR/ THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER...BUT THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY RAPIDLY THIS EVENING.  AT 340 PM EST A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE KOKOMO AREA AND EXTENDED TO JUST SOUTH OF
FORT WAYNE.

HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:54 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
INZALL-090000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
355 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990

AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AT
345 PM EST.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING BETWEEN MUNICE AND FORT WAYNE.

THERE IS A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST
INDIANA UNTIL 900PM EST. PEOPLE IN THE TORNADO WATCH SHOULD BE ALERT
TO THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES.

LOCAL REGIONAL PLOTS SUGGEST THAT THE AIRMASS REMAINS VERY
FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO IGNITE NEAR ST. LOUIS AND NORTHEAST
OF ST. LOUIS IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP IN
CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL MOVE EAST TOWARDS WESTERN INDIANFA LATE THIS
AFTERNOON.
EDWARDS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenderson, Union, Webster43 min
Jun 8, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDMadison2 hr
Jun 8, 2:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDHamilton2 hr
Jun 8, 3:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDDelaware, Henry, Randolph110 min
Jun 8, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVanderburgh, Warrick43 min
Jun 8, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPerry38 min
Jun 8, 6:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDDaviess, Knox2 hr
Jun 8, 6:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDMartin2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.