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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Indianapolis, IN

November 22, 1992Wayne County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 5:48 PM EST for Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 5:48 PM EST (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 1992, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 22, 5:57 PM EST	Tornado F2	Wayne, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 222247
SVRIND
INC177-222315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
548 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 542 PM EST RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTH OF
RICHMOND AND ALSO 15 MILES NORTHWEST TO 12 MILES WEST OF RICHMOND.
 
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL AT BOSTON WHICH IS 7
MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND. THE TOWN OF BOSTON IS WITHOUT POWER.
 
THE STRONGEST PART OF THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO THE EAST OF RICHMOND.
 
 
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, 12:53 PM EST, 4 hours 55 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, 3 hours 18 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

Special weather statement, Nov 22, 5:24 PM EST, 24 minutes before

INZALL-222330-                                    ]

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
523 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR TWO COUNTIES IN
EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...

ADAMS AND JAY COUNTIES.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... DECATUR AND PORTLAND.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOU~LD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
STEIGERWALDT

Special weather statement, Nov 22, 5:35 PM EST, 13 minutes before

INZ009-010-011-012-013-222345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
536 PM EST (436 PM CST) SUN NOV 22 1992

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SHELBY AND RUSH COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED.

AT 530 PM EST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH EASTERN
INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HARTFORD CITY TO 10 MILES EAST
OF GREENSBURG. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF INDIANA BY 800 PM AT
THE LATEST.

HAINES

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, 3:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	25 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1992 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.