Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1992, 5:05 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1992, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1992, 5:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County LaPorte County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 8, 12:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
INZALL-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1240 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 ...A TORNADO IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST... AT 1235 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ...BUT THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. MES
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 12:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
INZALL-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1240 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST... AT 1235 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON TO SOUTH OF INDIANAPOLIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ...BUT THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. MES ...CORRECTION FOR WORDING IN THE FIRST LINE...
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
INZALL-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 125 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST... AT 120 PM ONLY TWO SMALL PATCHES OF THUDERSHOWERS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. ONE AREA WAS ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF MUCNIE NEAR WINCHESTER WHILE ANOTHER AREA OF STRONGER THUNDERSHOWERS WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND NEAR LIBERTY. 1 THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL SOON MOVE INTO OHIO. THERE ARE NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN THE STATE AT THIS TIME. MES
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
INZALL-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST... AT 205 PM THE ONLY PRECIPITATION ACTIVITY IN INDIANA WAS AN AREA OF SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS BETWEEN INDIANAPOLIS AND MUNCIE. HOWEVER... THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE SO THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS A POSSIBILITY. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR. MES
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
INZALL-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 315 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 ...THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED OVER THE WATCH AREA IN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. THE AIR OVER INDIANA REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE SO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY STRONG...COULD DEVELOP OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS EVENING. MES
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:52 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
INZALL-090400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 450 PM EST WED JUL 8 1992 IN INDIANA THIS TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF MUNCIE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GARY...SOUTH BEND...ELKHART...ANGOLA... RENSSELAER...FORT WAYNE...LAFAYETTE...KOKOMO AND PORTLAND. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CO`NDITIONS 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. STEIGERWALDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe, White | 41 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.