Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 1990, 5:42 PM EST for Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1990, 5:42 PM EST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1990, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 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 KFWA 222242
SVRFWA
INC179-222315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
542 PM EST SAT SEP 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIANA
CENTRAL SOUTH WELLS
AT 535 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 15 MILES
SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR BLUFFTON INDIANA. AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS AND RETIRED WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED 3/4 INCH
DIAMETER HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE AREA AROUND THE CITY OF BLUFFTON INDIANA
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER
CROSSINGS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS 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.
SALSBURYWhat 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, Sep 22, 5:01 PM EST, 41 minutes before
INZ003-005-OHZ001-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 500 PM EST SAT SEP 22 1990 ...HAIL FALLING OVER SOUTH HALF OF FORT WAYNE... AT 450 PM EST...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND OFF DUTY WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN THE VICINITY OF SOUTHGATE MALL. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE HAIL WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF FORT WAYNE SHOULD BjE ALERT FOR THIS THUNDERSTORM AND TAKE PROTECTIVE MEASURES IF NECESSARY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM DEFIANCE OHIO TO FORT WAYNE TO MARION INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SALSBURY
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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.