Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 7:09 PM EST for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 7:09 PM EST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KEVV 090010
SVREVV
INC083-090045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
709 PM CDT (709 PM EST) FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT (745 PM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
...KNOX
AT 708 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH
OF VINCENNES INDIANA. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM
AT 700 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO
THE BICKNELL AND WESTPHALIA AREAS BY 715. TAKE COVER IMEDIATELY IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
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 OCCURRI^NG...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 SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
RUNNELSWhat 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, 4:25 PM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
INZALL-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 424 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 420 PM EST ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION. THE STORM NORTHEAST OF MARION WAS PRODUCING 40 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN NEAR I-69 AT 420 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS AND IN EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA NEAR THE OHIO RIVER. THERE IS A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST. PEOPLE IN THE TORNADO WATCH SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN...HAIL ...DAMAGING WINDS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. LISTEzN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:01 PM EST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
INZALL-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 500 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST AND FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 1100 PM EST. LAFAYETTE ...FORT WAYNE...TERRE HAUTE...INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...RICHMOND...AND EVANSVILLE ARE IN THE WATCH. AT 455 PM EST RADAR SHOWED NEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF BEDFORD TO NORTH OF NASHVILLE TO 15 MILES EAST OF BEDFORD. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE NEAR PARIS ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:27 PM EST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
INZALL-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 527 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST AND FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 1100 PM EST. LAFAYETTE ...FORT WAYNE...TERRE HAUTE...INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...RICHMOND...AND EVANSVILLE ARE IN THE WATCH. AT 525 PM EST RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN A NARROW LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO CRAWFORDSVILLE...FRANKFORT AND KOKOMO AND EAST TO 10 MILES NORTH OF MUNCIE. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR VINCENNES IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 35 MPH. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:07 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
INZ011>015-090400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 605 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 IN INDIANA TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 423 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... EAST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF GREENCASTLE TO TELL CITY...AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF GREENCASTLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BLOMINGTON...BEDFORD...COLUMBUS... SEYMOUR...BROOKVILLE AND MADISON. 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. STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:23 PM EST, 46 minutes before
INZ004>015-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 622 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST AND FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1100 PM EST. ALL OF INDIANA EXCEPT THE FAR NORTH IS NOW UNDER A TORNADO WATCH. AT 620 PM EST RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF A VINCENNES TO NORTH OF WASHINGTON AND JUST EAST OF JASPER IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWER WAS 5 MILES WEST OF BEDFORD IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF MARION IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:56 PM EST, 13 minutes before
INZ004>015-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 655 PM EST FRI JUN 8 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST AND FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1100 PM EST. ALL OF INDIANA EXCEPT THE FAR NORTH IS NOW UNDER A TORNADO WATCH. AT 650 PM EST RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF A VINCENNES TO SOUTHWEST OF PAOLI. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWER WAS 20 MILES SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA. THERE WAS NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTH OR CENTRAL INDIANA OR CENTRAL ILLINOIS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. ALNLSOPP ALLSOPP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 4:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Randolph | 2 hr |
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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.