Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1990, 6:41 AM EST for LaGrange County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1990, 6:41 AM EST (11:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1990, 7:15 AM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County LaGrange 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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 KIND 101142
SVRFWA
INC087-101215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
ISSUED BY INDIANAPOLIS IN
641 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
...LAGRANGE
AT 625 AM EST...THE STATE POLICE REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 40
MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE AT SHIPSHEWANNA.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED THE HAIL WAS MOVING EAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE CITIES OF LAGRANGE...PLATO AND BRUSHY PRAIRIE SHOULD
REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
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.
STEIGERWALDTWhat 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, Mar 10, 5:37 AM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
MIZ001-002-101300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 536 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN THIS MORNING... DENSE FOG CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM ACROSS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN THIS MORNING. SOME AREAS HAVE REPORTED VISIBILITIES LESS THAN 1/4 MILE. THE FOG SHOULD BEGIN TO LIFT BY MID MORNING. MOTORISTS DRIVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN THIS MORNING SHOULD ANTICIPATE REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. MS
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 5:49 AM EST, 52 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-101230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 540 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...DENSE FOG IN MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 530 AM A CHECK WITH THE INDIANA STATE POLICE INDICATED MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA HAS DENSE FOG. THIS FOG WILL REMAIN IN MOST OF NORTHEAST INDAINA THROUGH AT LEAT 7AM. PLEASE DRIVE WITH CARE AND USE YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS. RJB
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:07 AM EST, 34 minutes before
INZ001-002-MIZ001-002-101130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 528 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN... AT 520 AM EST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREASPSSBN
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:11 AM EST, 30 minutes before
MIZ001-002-INZ001-002-101300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 611 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN THIS MORNING... DENSE FOG CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM ACROSS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN THIS MORNING. SOME AREAS HAVE REPORTED VISIBILITIES LESS THAN 1/4 MILE. DENSE FOG HAS ALSO FORMED OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. AT 6 00 AM EST... THE VISIBILITY AT THE MICHIANA REGIONAL AIRPORT HAD BEEN REDUCED TO 1/8 MILE IN FOG. MOTORISTS DRIVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS MORNING SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. MS
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:20 AM EST, 21 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-101145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 605 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 6AM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR TOPEKA INDIANA OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...OR 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR ROME CITY OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE BY 630 AM. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RJB
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:25 AM EST, 16 minutes before
INZ001-002-MIZ001-002-101230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 626 AM EST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN... AT 620 AM EST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ALBION INDIANA...30 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...TO KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN AND THEN WESTWARD TO BENTON HARBOR MICHIGAN. FROM BENTON HARBOR...THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN INTO NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR LAGRANGE AND MIDDLEBURY INDIANA...40 AND 30 MILES EAST OF SOUTH BEND RESPECTIVELY...CENTREVILLE MICHIGAN...18 MILES SOUTH OF KALAMAZOO AND OVER LAKE MICHIGAN WEST OF BENTON HARBOR MICHIGAN. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. MS
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.