Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 2:39 PM EST for Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1992, 2:39 PM EST (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1992, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 241940 SVRIND INC097-242015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 239 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY AT 2 35 PM EST QUARTER SIZE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR 21AT AND ARLINGTON IN INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSON ON THE EAST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS SHOULD STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING.c..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. WJG
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 24, 2:32 PM EST, 7 minutes before
INZ008-009-010-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 AM EST WED JUN 24 1992 AT 225 PM EST STATE POLICE REPORTED MABLE SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS L AND HEAVY RAINS OVER EAGLE CREEK AT INDIANAPOLIS IN CENTRAL INDIANAPOLIS. RADAR AT 225 PM EST INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM CRAWFORSVILLE THROUGH THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE METRO AREA OF INDIANAPOLIS TO EAST OF NEW CASTLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN THE METROPOLITAN INDIANAPOLIS ARREA CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AGE
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:37 PM EST, 2 minutes before
INZ008-009-010-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 PAM EST WED JUN 24 1992 AT 225 PM EST STATE POLICE REPORTED MABLE SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS... AND HEAVY RAINS OVER EAGLE CREEK AT INDIANAPOLIS IN CENTRAL INDIANAPOLIS. RADAR AT 225 PM EST INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM CRAWFORDVILLE THROUGH THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE METRO AREA OF INDIANAPOLIS TO EAST OF NEW CCASTLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN THE METROPOLITAN INDIANAPOLIS AREA AND ALONG THE PATH OF THESE SHOWERS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AGE
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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.