Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1991, 5:33 PM EST for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1991, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1991, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 8, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
INZALL-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE ...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...BLOOMINGTON...EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD... COLUMBUS...AND SEYMOUR. AT 205 PM EST A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BLINDING RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS APPROACHING INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM WAS ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE METRO AREA INCLUDING THE GOLF COURSE FOR THE PGA TOURNAMENT JUST NORTH OF OF INDIANAPOLIS. IF THREATENING C5ONDITIONS APPROACH MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION. EDWARDS
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:59 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
INZALL-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 342 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE ...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...BLOOMINGTON...EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD... COLUMBUS...AND SEYMOUR. AT 320 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALIGNED FROM WINCHESTER TO LOSANTVILLE IN EAST-CENTRAL INDIANA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST PART OF FAYETTE COUNTY OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONNERVILLE. THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHWEST FAYETTE COUNTY. POWER OUTAGES WERE REPORTED BY STATE POLICE IN SOUTH- WEST FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO NORTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 440 PM EST. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE AT ONCE. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:04 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
INZALL-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 404 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE ...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...BLOOMINGTON...EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD... COLUMBUS...AND SEYMOUR. AT 320 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALIGNED FROM WINCHESTER TO LOSANTVILLE IN EAST-CENTRAL INDIANA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST PART OF FAYETTE COUNTY OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONNERVILLE. THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHWEST FAYETTE COUNTY. POWER OUTAGES WERE REPORTED BY STATE POLICE IN SOUTH- WEST FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO NORTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 440 PM EST. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE AT ONCE. ...CORRECT PARA 3...CHANGE 440 PM EST TO 340 PM EST. RPG
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:37 PM EST, 56 minutes before
INZALL-082230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 435 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE ...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...BLOOMINGTON...EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD... COLUMBUS...AND SEYMOUR. AT 425 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF OXFORD IN BENTON COUNTY AND IT WILL MOVE INTO BROOKSTON BY 5 PM EST AND BE JUST TO THE NORTH OF LAFAYETTE BY 515 PM EST. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY AND JUST TO THE SOUTH OF FRANKLIN AND OVER SHELBYVILLE. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. RPG
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:59 PM EST, 34 minutes before
INZALL-082230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 455 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BENTON COUNTY AND WAS JUST TO THE EAST OF OXFORD. CIVIL DEFENSE AUTHORITIES IN BENTON COUNTY REPORTED A POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ALONG WITH SOME MINOR DAMAGE TO FENCES AND A BARN AT 445 PM EST. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE LAFAYETTE AREA AROUND 515 PM EST. STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. RPG
Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:17 PM EST, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
510 PM EST THU AUG 8 1991
TIME LOCATION
442 PM EST APPARENT TORNADO TOUCHDOWN 7 MILES SOUTH OF FOWLER IN
CENTRAL BENTON vCOUNTY OR ABOUT 20 MILES WNW OF LAFAYETTE.
DAMAGE TO TOOL SHED AND FENCING AT THIS LOCATION. REPORTED
BY CIVIL DEFENSE AUTHORITIES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 5:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Barren, Monroe | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.