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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 3:05 PM EST for Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 1992, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1992, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 3:07 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Montgomery, IN | |
| Nov 22, 3:08 PM EST | Tornado F3 | Montgomery, IN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 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 KIND 222004 SVRIND INC107-222030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 305 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 300 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THIS STORM PRODUCED SOME DAMAGE AS IT MOVED THROUGH PUTNAM COUNTY. 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. HAINES
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, Nov 22, 11:19 AM EST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
INZALL-222200- AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 917 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1115 AM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 IN INDIANA TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 917 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE TO 45 EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS AND THEN WEST OF A LINE FROM 45 MILES EAST OF INDIANA- POLIS TO LOUISVILLE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... TERRE HAUTE...BLOOOMINGTON...SOUTH HALF OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA...COLUMBUS...EVANSVILLE... SEYMOUR....SALEM AND JASPER. 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. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 12:53 PM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
INZALL-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1250 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... TERRE HAUTE...BLOOOMINGTON...SOUTH HALF OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA...COLUMBUS...EVANSVILLE... SEYMOUR....SALEM AND JASPER. AT 1245 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF TERRE HAUTE TO JUST EAST OF EVANSVILLE. BY 200 PM THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTENDED FROM THE TERRE HAUTE AREA TO OVER LINTON AND WASHINGTON TO 30 MILES EAST OF EVANSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THIS THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS WAS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA BETWEEN LOGANSPORTE AND LAFAYETTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AS THE SLIP EAST AT BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MILES AN HOUR. HAINES
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 2:30 PM EST, 35 minutes before
INZ009-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 225 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD INDIANAPOLIS AT 220 PM EST... THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN BLOOOMINGTON AND TERRE HAUTE AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOVEMENT WOULD BRING THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA AROUND 245 PM EST AND INTO THE DOWNTOWN AREA BY AROUND 3 OR 315 PM EST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...SOME THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING...AND A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST. . PERSONS IN AN AROUND THE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. PRICE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke, Vigo | 45 min |
| Nov 22, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Owen | 48 min |
| Nov 22, 2:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan | 35 min |
| Nov 22, 3:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Marion | 42 min |
| Nov 22, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush, Shelby | 60 min |
| Nov 22, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Madison, Rush | 46 min |
| Nov 22, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fayette, Union | 49 min |
| Nov 22, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Wayne | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.