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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 17, 1992Tipton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1992, 9:33 PM EST for Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1992, 9:33 PM EST (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1992, 10:15 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Tipton County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2881 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 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
2881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
12.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 180233
SVRIND
INC011-023-057-159-180315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
933 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN BOONE COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN CLINTON COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY...TIPTON COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM EST RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10
MILES SOUTH OF FRANKFORT INDIANA...TO 15 MILES EAST OF FRANKFORT. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
TIPTON...ARCADIA...KIRKLIN AND ELIZAVILLE.
 
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.
 
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.
 
ELSON

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, Jun 17, 5:29 PM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
INZALL-172330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
526 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL
INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING...

AT 515 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA...IN NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY...TO 50
MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE IN ILLINOIS.  THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN NEWTON
...BENTON AND JASPER COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY NEAR KENTLAND INDIANA...
40 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE THROUGH 630 PM.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WILL MOVE INTO INDIANA EAST OF DANVILLE BY 630 PM.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
ELSON
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:21 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
INZALL-180030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
621 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH
INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING...

AT 610 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHWEST AND
WEST CENTRAL INDIANA.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF
LAFAYETTE INDIANA...MOVING TOWARDS THE TOWNS OF SLEETH AND PITTSBURG
INDIANA...15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE.

OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE...
NEAR WHEATFIELD...TO DANVILLE ILLINOIS.  THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY
RAIN OVER MUCH OF NORTHWES<T AND PART OF WESTCENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH
730 PM.

ELSON
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:37 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
INZALL-180500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
645 PM  EST WED JUN 17 1992

IN INDIANA THIS TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...
EAST AND NORTH AND A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO
25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... FORT WAYNE...INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE AND
RICHMOND.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS TLHAT 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.

DS
Local storm report, Jun 17, 8:33 PM EST, 1 hour before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
830 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992

TIME      LOCATION                     EVENT

1900 EST  SE LAFAYETTE                 24 INCH TREES DOWN ON TWO HOUSES
          TIPPECANOE

MES
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 9:18 PM EST, 15 minutes before
INZALL-180300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
918 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992

THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE ILLINOIS TO ANGOLA INDIANA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR WEST CENTRAL
INDIANA...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL...EAST
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST.

SBH
Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:22 PM EST, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
917 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992

TIME      LOCATION                     EVENT

2100 EST  PLEVNA (NE OF KOKOMO)        2 FOOT DIAMETER TREES DOWN
          HOWARD COUNTY                ESTIMATED 50-60 MPH WINDS
                                       (AMATEUR RADIO)

2100 EST  RUSSIAVILLE                  POWER LINES AND 2 FT DIAMETER
          CLINTON COUNTY               TREES DOWN (AMATEUR RADIO)

2115 EST  MULBERRY                     LOCAL POLICE REPORT EST. WINDS
          CLINTON COUNTY               60-70 MPH WINDS  1 TREE DOWN

MES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 7:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCarroll, Clinton42 min
Jun 17, 7:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe29 min
Jun 17, 7:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSaint Joseph44 min
Jun 17, 7:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCass, Howard, Miami30 min
Jun 17, 8:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCass, Howard, Miami30 min
Jun 17, 8:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Tipton27 min
Jun 17, 8:23 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMiami37 min
Jun 17, 8:33 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHoward27 min
Jun 17, 8:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Tipton30 min
Jun 17, 8:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain26 min
Jun 17, 8:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hamilton36 min
Jun 17, 8:59 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHoward31 min
Jun 17, 9:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Tipton46 min
Jun 17, 9:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Clinton, Hamilton42 min
Jun 17, 10:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hamilton48 min
Jun 17, 11:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone, Hamilton, Marion60 min
Jun 17, 11:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks, Marion41 min
Jun 17, 11:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware, Madison28 min
Jun 17, 11:46 PM ESTTornado WarningINDBoone14 min
Jun 17, 11:49 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMarion41 min
Jun 17, 11:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDBoone, Hamilton, Madison3 hr
Jun 18, 12:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Morgan62 min
Jun 18, 12:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion47 min
Jun 18, 12:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock65 min
Jun 18, 1:21 AM ESTTornado WarningINDHenry39 min
Jun 18, 1:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDHenry, Wayne117 min
Jun 18, 1:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDHancock117 min
Jun 18, 2:02 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry, Rush43 min
Jun 18, 2:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFayette40 min
Jun 18, 2:09 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Morgan66 min
Jun 18, 2:35 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDUnion25 min
Jun 18, 3:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDJohnson, Morgan, Shelby119 min
Jun 18, 3:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDFayette, Rush119 min
Jun 18, 3:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDUnion119 min
Jun 18, 3:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDJackson, Jennings2 hr
Jun 18, 3:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFayette, Rush6 min
Jun 18, 1:44 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHenry, Randolph, Wayne31 min
Jun 18, 2:15 PM ESTTornado WarningINDRandolph, Wayne45 min
Jun 18, 3:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJennings26 min

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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.