Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 4:14 PM EST for Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 3, 1990, 4:14 PM EST (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jay 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 3, 4:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Jay, 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 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 032114
SVRFWA
INC075-032145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
414 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIANA
JAY
AT 410 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF PORTLAND
INDIANA. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE AREA AROUND THE CITY OF PORTLAND INDIANA
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR
WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES 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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICxKLY...AVOID
DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
WITSAMANWhat 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 3, 3:02 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-002-032135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 305 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1990 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... ...BLOWING DUST ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN INDIANA... AT 300PM EST...AN AREA OF MODERATE RAINSHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WAS 40 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LANSING MICHIGAN...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAYFETTE INDIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF CULVER...EAST OF KNOX...MEDARYVILLE...AND JUST EAST OF NORTH MANCHESTER INDIANA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GUSTY WINDS OVER MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN OF 35 TO 48 MPH HAVE CAUSED BLOWING DUST CONDITIONS OVER SOME AREAS. THE BLOWING DUST HAS RESTRICTED VISIBILITIES TO ZERO IN AREAS NEAR OPEN FIELDS. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS IN NORTHERN INDIANA SHOULD SLOW DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IF THEY ENCOUNTER LOW VISIBILIES. BOATERS AND DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS THAT THE HIGH WINDS POSE TO VEHICLES AND THEIR OCCUPANTS. GALLAGHER
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-002-032135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 305 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1990 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... ...BLOWING DUST ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN INDIANA... AT 300PM EST...AN AREA OF MODERATE RAINSHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WAS 40 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LANSING MICHIGAN...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAYFETTE INDIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF CULVER...EAST OF KNOX...MEDARYVILLE...AND JUST EAST OF NORTH MANCHESTER INDIANA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GUSTY WINDS OVER MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN OF 35 TO 48 MPH HAVE CAUSED BLOWING DUST CONDITIONS OVER SOME AREAS. THE BLOWING DUST HAS RESTRICTED VISIBILITIES TO ZERO IN AREAS NEAR OPEN FIELDS. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS IN NORTHERN INDIANA SHOULD SLOW DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IF THEY ENCOUNTER LOW VISIBILIES. BOATERS AND DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS THAT THE HIGH WINDS POSE TO VEHICLES AND THEIR OCCUPANTS. GALLAGHER CORRECTION...ADDED SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:24 PM EST, 50 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 220 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... ...A BLOWING DUST ADVISOTY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION. THESE STORMS WERE (MOVING THROUGH FORT WAYNE ALSO. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THS STROMS CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE DURING THE STORM. WITSAMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:36 PM EST, 38 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 335 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... ...A BLOWING DUST ADVISOTY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION INDIANA. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. BY 4 PM EST/5 PM EDT...THE STRONG STORMS WILL EXTEND FROM DEFIANCE OHIO TO HARTFORD CITY INDIANA. THS STROMS CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE DURING THIS STORM. WITSAMAN>
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:39 PM EST, 35 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-002-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 340 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1990 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... ...BLOWING DUST ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN INDIANA... AT 330PM EST...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTTERED OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. MOST OF THE SHOWERS STRETCHED IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND FROM LAGRANGE INDIANA...SOUTHWEST TO ROCHESTER INDIANA...38 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BEND. TWO THUNDERSHOWERS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILLERSBURG INDIANA...29 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND AND NEAR ETNA GREEN INDIANA...27 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. . THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH OVER MICHIANA HAVE CAUSED BLOWING DUST IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY REDUCING VISIBILITIES IN OPEN FIELDS. THE BLOWING DUST HAS RESULTED IN THE CLOSURE OF THE US31 BYPASS AROUND SOUTH BEND. THE GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND SUNSET. BOATERS AND DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLEDS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS THAT THE HIGH WINDS POSE TO VEHICLES AND THEIR OCCUPANTS. MCCLUNG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:53 PM EST, 21 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ01-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 350 PM EST SUN JUN 3 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... ...A BLOWING DUST ADVISOTY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES... THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED SOUTH FROM 35 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR PAULDING OHIO TO BLUFFTON INDIANA TO 10 MILES SOUTH EAST OF MARION. BY 430 PM EST/530 PM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL EXTEND FROM DECATUR INIANA TO JUST EAST OF HARTFORD CITY INDIANA. THS STROMS CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE DURING THIS STORM. WIfTSAMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash, Whitley | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 8:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 8:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash, Whitley | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 9:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 9:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 28 min |
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.