Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:58 AM EST for Allen County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:58 AM EST (13:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen 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 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Wells | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 9:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wells | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Wells | 31 min |
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.