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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 5, 1990Daviess County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1990, 5:04 PM EST for Daviess County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 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
Jul 5, 1990, 5:04 PM EST (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1990, 5:45 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Daviess 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 5, 5:11 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 0Daviess, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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 1990-07-05Temperature 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 1990-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 052204
SVREVV
INC027-052245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
504 PM CDT (504 PM EST) THU JUL 5 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT (545 PM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
          ...DAVIESS
 
AT 500 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WASHINGTON
INDIANA ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF EVANSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL REACH MONTGOMERY INDIANA BY 515 PM
CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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 TJHE ROAD.
 
SUMMY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 5:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDubois43 min
Jul 5, 6:06 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDDubois2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.