Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1990, 1:55 PM EST for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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 22, 1990, 1:55 PM EST (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1990, 2:25 PM EST
- In force
- 30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:04 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Knox, IN | |
| Jun 22, 2:19 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Knox, 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 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 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 221855
SVREVV
INC027-083-221945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
155 PM CDT (155 PM EST) FRI JUN 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT (245 PM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
...DAVIESS...KNOX
AT 152 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES NORTH
OF EVANSVILLE JUST NORTHWEST OF VINCENNES. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL REACH THE
BICKNELL AREA BY 210 PM AND THE WASHINGTON AREA AROUND 220 PM. PEOPLE
IN KNOX AND DAVIESS COUNTIES SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING NOW
AND BRACE FOR THIS STORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
SUMMYWhat 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 22, 12:26 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
INZALL-230000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 1225 PM EST FRI JUN 22 1990 IN INDIANA THIS .......TORNADO....... WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 00 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CONNERSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF CONNERSVILLE TO 20 MILES EAST OF GOSHEN. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...PERU...KOKOMO...MUNCIE... LAFAYETTE...ANDERSON...AND INDIANAPOLIS. 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 FORw LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PRICE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
INZALL-221830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1228 PM EST FRI JUN 22 1990 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA AT 1225 PM EST. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE ...NEAR CRAWFORDSVILLE AND ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE 8 MILES WEST OF LOGANSPORT IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER LOGANSPORT...TERRE HAUTE AND NEAR CRAWFORDSVILLE BETWEEN 1230 PM AND 100 PM EST. CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER A LARGE PART OF INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN INDIANA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EST. EDWARDS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:58 PM EST, 57 minutes before
INZALL-221830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1258 PM EST FRI JUN 22 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING QUICKLY ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA. SHORTLY BEFORE 1PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING TIPTON... LEBANON AND MOVING TOWARDS GREENCASTLE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST. THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED EAST OF TERRE HAUTE AS OF 1255 PM EST. THERE WERE NEW THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE MOVING QUICKLY EAST. EDWARDS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:29 PM EST, 26 minutes before
INZALL-221930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 125 PM EST FRI JUN 22 1990 AT 120 PM EST THERE WAS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUNCIE TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS AND THEN TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. BY 200 PM EST THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTOMS SHOULD BE LOCATED FROM NEAR MUNCIE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA AND THEN TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST. PRICE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:53 PM EST, 2 minutes before
INZALL-221930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 150 PM EST FRI JUN 22 1990 AT 148 PM EST THERE WAS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAT OF INDIANAPOLIS THROUGH THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF INDIANAPOLIS TO ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE MOST INTENSE STORM AT 148 PM EST WAS HEADED TOWARDS MOORESVILLE AND GREENWOOD. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF INDIANAPOLIS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NOBELSVILLE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE EAST AND SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. THERE IS A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN INDIANA. EDWARDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 2:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.