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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 14, 1992Decatur County, Jennings County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1992, 6:37 PM EST for Decatur County, Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1992, 6:37 PM EST (23:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1992, 7:30 PM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Decatur County, IN, Jennings County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 783 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
783 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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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 14, 3:24 PM EST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
INZ009-142130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
320 PM EST TUE JUL 14 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST A PORTION OF NORTHERN
AND CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...SOUTH
OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES EAST OF SOUTH BEND TO 40 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE.

AT 320 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO THE WEST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS. AT 315 PM EST THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT THE INDIAAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RECORDED
A WIND GUST OF 48 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS BETWEEN
325 AND 340 PM EST. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BLINDING DOWNPOURS...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

TMA
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:57 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
INZ005>013-140400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
355 PM EST TUE JUL 14 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL
...PART OF NORTHERN AND PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART
OF INDIANA...SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO
30 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI OHIO TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF VINCENNES.

THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 618 THAT WAS ISSUED
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE...ANDERSON...BEDFORD...CONNERSVILLE...
COLUMBUS...FORT WAYNE...INDIANAPOLIS...LAFAYETTE...AND LAWRENCEBURG.

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 STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TMA
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:07 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
INZ005>013-140400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
355 PM EST TUE JUL 14 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL...
PART OF NORTHERN AND PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART
OF INDIANA...SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO
30 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI OHIO TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF VINCENNES.

THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 618 THAT WAS ISSUED
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE...ANDERSON...BEDFORD...CONNERSVILLE...
COLUMBUS...FORT WAYNE...INDIANAPOLIS...LAFAYETTE...AND LAWRENCEBURG.

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 STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TMA
X
...CORRECTION TO CHANGE WATCH EXPIRATION TIME TO 11 PM EST...
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:04 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
INZ005>013-140400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
505 PM EST TUE JUL 14 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL...
PART OF NORTHERN AND PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART
OF INDIANA...SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO
30 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI OHIO TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF VINCENNES.

AT 500 PM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
FORT WAYNE THROUGH MARION TO FRANKFORT. A SECOND LINE EXTENDS FROM
INDIANAPOLIS TO VINCENNES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEST AT 40 MILES
AND HOUR WHILE BOTH LINES WERE GRADUALLY SAGGING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

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 STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RPG
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:10 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
INZ005>013-150400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
511 PM EST TUE JUL 14 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL...
PART OF NORTHERN AND PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART
OF INDIANA...SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO
30 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI OHIO TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF VINCENNES.

AT 500 PM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
FORT WAYNE THROUGH MARION TO FRANKFORT. A SECOND LINE EXTENDS FROM
INDIANAPOLIS TO VINCENNES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES
AND HOUR WHILE BOTH LINES WERE GRADUALLY SAGGING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

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 STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RPG
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:09 PM EST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 7:08 PM ESTTornado WarningINDSaint Joseph37 min
Jul 13, 8:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLaPorte33 min
Jul 13, 8:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSaint Joseph40 min
Jul 13, 9:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDElkhart40 min
Jul 14, 1:25 PM ESTTornado WarningINDBenton, White35 min
Jul 14, 1:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe47 min
Jul 14, 2:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCarroll60 min
Jul 14, 3:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVigo60 min
Jul 14, 3:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDCarroll, Cass3 hr
Jul 14, 3:41 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDHoward3 hr
Jul 14, 5:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry, Randolph61 min
Jul 14, 6:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFayette, Union56 min
Jul 14, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush, Shelby67 min
Jul 14, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWayne42 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.