Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 10:32 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 10:32 PM EST (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 2573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 100333 SVRIND INC139-100400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1032 PM EST THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...RUSH COUNTY AT 1026 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE HANCOCK AND SHELBY COUNTY LINE...15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM PRODUCED ONE INCH SIZE HAIL AT NEW PALESTINE IN SOUTHWEST HANCOCK COUNTY AT 1018 PM EST. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVING TO NEAR MANILLA...10 MILES WEST OF RUSHVILLE BY 1045 PM EST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND 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 ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TMA
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, Jul 9, 5:23 PM EST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
INZ008>015-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 523 PM EST THU JUL 9 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 578 THAT INCLUDED PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY PART OF INDIANA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 582 WHICH INCLUDES PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AT 520 PM EST. STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:53 PM EST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
INZ012-015-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 555 PM EST THU JUL 9 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 582 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 1000 PM EST. AT 550 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL INDIANA WITH SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALSO 15 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. LARGE HAIsL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. RPG
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 10:09 PM EST, 23 minutes before
INZ000-100430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1005 PM EST THU JUL 9 1992 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA. AT 1003 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT BOTH MARSELLIES ILLINOIS AND EVANSVILLE INDIANA WERE SHOWING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITIAN AREA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STATE POLICE HAVE REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH STORM AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITIAN AREA BY 1020 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA FROM CRAWFORDSVILLE TO LOGANSPORT AND EAST TO MUNCIE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS SOME ROADWAYS. . REPORT ANY FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TMA
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.