Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 7:28 PM EST for Delaware County, Randolph County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1992, 7:28 PM EST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1992, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Delaware County, IN, Randolph County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 250030 SVRIND INC035-135-250100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 728 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA ...EASTERN DELAWARE COUNTY...WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY AT 728 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE INDIANA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE& IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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 24, 2:37 PM EST, 4 hours 51 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
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:40 PM EST, 4 hours 48 minutes before
INZ008-009-010-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 PM 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 CASTLE. 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:57 PM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
INZALL-250200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 255 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 IN INDIANA THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM . WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND TO 30 MILES WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS....AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS TO 10 MILES NORTH OF JASPER....AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OG JASPER TO LOUISVILLE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... INDIANAPOLIS...BEDFORD...MADISON... RUSHVILLE..AND SEYMOUR. 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 THREATEN ING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:52 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
INZ008>013-015-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 350 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST. AT 340 PM EST RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CONNERSVILLE...WEST THROUGH GREENFIELD...INDIANAPOILS AND PLAINFIELD. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONNERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWES;T OF RICHMOND. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS EAST OF GREENFIELD....25 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. WJG
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:37 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
INZALL-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 435 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. AT 430 PM EST WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EASTERN INDIANA...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF RICHMOND. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MIDWAY BETWEEN SHELBYVILLE AND COLUMBUS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS...TO NEAR MARTINSVILLE...ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS DURING T!HE EVENING HOURS WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. . PRICE
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:13 PM EST, 15 minutes before
INZALL-250115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 711 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 AT 705 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF MUNCIE IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF INDIANA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS NORTHEAST DELAWARE COUNTY AND INTO RANDOLPH COUNTY. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR WINCHESTER INDIANA BY 715 PM. ELSON
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.