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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 16, 1992Rush County, Shelby County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1992, 5:57 PM EST for Rush County, Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 1992, 5:57 PM EST (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1992, 6:45 PM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1992-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1992-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 162259
SVRIND
INC139-162345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
557 PM EST THU APR 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...EASTERN SHELBY AND SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 550 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING FROM SHELBY
COUNTY TOWARD RUSH COUNTY. AMATEUR RADIO MEASURED GUSTS UP TO 57 MILES
AN HOUR AS ONE OF THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH SHELBY COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF
SHELBYVILLE. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS WILL
MOVE INTO RUSH COUNTY BY 610 PM EST.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
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.
KOLDITZ

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, Apr 16, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
250 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA.

AT 235 PM...ONE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FORT WAYNE TO
TO KOKOMO TO FRANKFORT THEN WEST TO THE BOURDER.

THIS LINE WAS 10 MILES WIDE. IT WILL MOVE INTO MARION...BLUFFTON
AND TIPTON BY 315 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LAST FOR ABOUT A HALF
HOUR. GRISSOM AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AT 225 PM.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.
THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM INDIANAPOLIS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF
TERRE HAUTE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MARTINSVILLE AND SPENCER BY
315 PM.

ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL.

HAINES
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:16 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
310 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA.

AT 300 PM...ONE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUTH 10 MILES WIDE..EXTENDED
FROM JUST SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE AND KOKOMO TO JUST NORTH OF
CRAWFORDSVILLE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MARION...BLUFFTON AND TIPTON
BY 345 PM.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS BETWEEN INDIANAPOLIS...SHELBYVILLE
...BLOOMINGTON AND TERRE HAUTE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOE THROUGH FRANKLIN AND MARTINSVILLE BY
415 PM.

ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL.

HAINES
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:51 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
345 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTH OF A LINE
FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO TO 40
MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR THE REST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA.

AT 340 PM EST...ONE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE..EXTENDED
FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO TO 30 MILES
NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE. A NORTH-SOUTH LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
TERRE HAUTE TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE.

MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY STATE POLICE NEAR NEWPORT IN VERMILLION
COUNTY AT 330 PM EST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS
IN THE NORTHERN PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA WILL EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF
MUNCIE TO 25 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS TO ROCKVILLE...WHICH IS 20
NORTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE BY 410 PM EST. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA WILL EXTEND FROM ROCKVILLE TO LINTON...WHICH IS
40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TERRE HAUTE BY 410 PM EST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

MAGNUSON/HAINES
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:24 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
425 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST...

AT 410 PM EST...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD
CRAWFORDSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTIAN HAIL AND INTENSE RAIN.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT COVERED A GOOD PORTION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA.

THERE WER TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS. ONE EXTENDED EAST-WEST FROM
CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE. BY 500 PM THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTFIELD AND ANDERSON.

ANOTHER AREA WAS NORTH EAST-SOUTHWEST AND EXTENDED BETWEEN
INDIANAPOLIS AND BLOOMINGTON TO BETWEEN TERRE HAUTE AND VINCENNES.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO BLOOMINGTON AND COLUMBUS BY 530 PM.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AS THE
AREA MOVES SOUTHEAST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

HAINES
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:32 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
IDZALL-162200

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
425 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST...

AT 410 PM EST...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD
CRAWFORDSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTIAN HAIL AND INTENSE RAIN.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT COVERED A GOOD PORTION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA.

THERE WER TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS. ONE EXTENDED EAST-WEST FROM
CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE. BY 500 PM THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTFIELD AND ANDERSON.

ANOTHER AREA WAS NORTH EAST-SOUTHWEST AND EXTENDED BETWEEN
INDIANAPOLIS AND BLOOMINGTON TO BETWEEN TERRE HAUTE AND VINCENNES.
THESE THUNDERSORMS WILL MOVE INTO BLOOMINGTON AND COLUMBUS BY 530 PM.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AS THE
AREA !MOVES SOUTHEAST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

...CORRECTION FOR CODEING IN HEADER...
HAINES
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:57 PM EST, 1 hour before
IDZALL-162230

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
500 PM EST THU APR 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST...

AT 415 PM EST...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR FREEMAN IN SOUTHEAST
OWEN COUNTY.

THIS POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA.

ONE AREA EXTENDED FROM MUNCIE TO ROCKVILLE. ANOTHER AREA EXTENDED
FROM INDIANAPOLIS TO BLOOMINGTON TO BEDFORD.

PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF BEDFORD AT 450 PM.

AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA GUSTY WINDS...HAIL
AND HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AS THE
AREA MOVES SOUTHEAST.

HAINES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 5:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown, Jackson20 min
Apr 16, 5:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur, Jennings28 min
Apr 16, 6:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFayette, Union, Wayne46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.