Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1992, 9:08 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1992, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 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 KSBN 140109 SVRSBN MIC021-140200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 808 PM EST (908 PM EDT) MON JUL 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EST (1000 PM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...BERRIEN COUNTY AT 808 PM EST/908 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND TO 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND...OR FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF BENTON HARBOR MICHIGAN TO JUST WEST OF BRIDGMAN MICHIGAN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE LIKELY PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BENTON HARBOR...BRIDGMAN... AND BERRIEN SPRINGS MICHIGAN. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BARJENBRUCH
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 13, 4:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
INZ001>007-006-010-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 325 PM EST MON JUL 13 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR PART OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANDERSON...ANGOLA...FORT WAYNE...KOKOMO... RENSSELAER AND SOUTH BEND. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WJG
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
INZ001>007-006-010-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 510 PM EST MON JUL 13 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR PART OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE...ANDERSON...ANGOLA...FORT WAYNE...KOKOMO... RENSSELAER AND SOUTH BEND. THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 612 THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITI~ONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . TMA
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
INZ001>007-006-010-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 600 PM EST MON JUL 13 1992 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO RICHMOND. SOME NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE KOKOMO ...RENSSELAER...MONITCELLO...LOGANSPORT...MARION...RICHMOND AND ANDERSON. AT 600 PM EST RADAR WAS SHOWING NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. HOWEVER...ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA OF CENTRAL INDIANA. PERSONS IN NORTH8 CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . TMA
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:19 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
INZ004-005-007-010-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 718 PM EST MON JUL 13 1992 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO RICHMOND. SOME NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE KOKOMO ...RENSSELAER...MONITCELLO...LOGANSPORT...MARION...RICHMOND AND ANDERSON. AT 715 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT INDIANAPOLIS WAS SHOWING NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF CENTRAL INDIANA. HOWEVER...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MARSEILLES ILLINOIS WAS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CHICAGO AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL LIKELY ENTER THE NORTHWEST PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA BETWEEN 8 PM AND 9 PM EST. . PERSONS IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROOACHES. TMA
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:39 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
INZ001>007-010-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 740 PM EST MON JUL 13 1992 THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS LINE UNTIL 11 PM EST. AT 738 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MARSEILLES ILLINOIS WAS CONTINUING TO SHOW A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM CHICAGO AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL LIKELY ENTER THE NORTHWEST PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA BETWEEN 8 PM AND 9 PM EST. PERSONS IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THRqEATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. . TMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Cass | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Saint Joseph | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.