Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1990, 9:36 PM EST for Jay County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1990, 9:36 PM EST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1990, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jay County, IN, Wells 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWA 010237
SVRFWA
INC075-179-010315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
936 PM EST P JUN 30 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
...NORTHERN JAY...SOUTHERN WELLS
AT 928 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MARION INDIANA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...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
HA S PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.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 30, 6:45 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-010130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 645 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 640 PM EST...A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM WHEATFIELD INDIANA...50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND...TO FORT WAYNE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MW
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:48 PM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-0102485- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 745 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST... AT 740 PM EST...NO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE...AND OVER WHITE...CASS...SOUTHERN MIAMI COUNTIES OF INDIANA. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH EAST ILLINOIS WILLL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN INDIANA LATER THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. GALLAGHER
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:18 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-010215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 815 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA AND UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 810 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES WEST OF MARION INDIANA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IT CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. BY 915 PM EST THIS STORM WILL BE LOCATED 15 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MARION OR NEAR HARTFORD CITY. HAYES
Local storm report, Jun 30, 8:56 PM EST, 40 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
855 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990
TIME EVENT
1715EST LAPORTE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN
ALONG WITH 30 MPH WIND GUSTS.
1730EST MARSHALL COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
1830 EST FULTON COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED GOLF BALL
SIZE HAIL 5 MILES EAST OF ROCHESTER INDIANA...IN FULTON
COUNTY. SEVERAL LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES WERE REPORTED
DOWN IN FULTON COUNTY.
MCCLUNGSpecial weather statement, Jun 30, 9:05 PM EST, 31 minutes before
INZ001-002-010230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 900 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 900 PM EST...NO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS. THESE STORMS POSE NO THREAT TO NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. MW
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 9:07 PM EST, 29 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-010935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 905 PM EST SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EST FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EST FOR JAY... BLACKFORD AND GRANT COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE REMINDER OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 9 PM EST THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA OR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. HAYES
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.