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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 2, 1992Decatur County, Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1992, 7:18 PM EST for Decatur County, Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 1992, 7:18 PM EST (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1992, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Decatur County, IN, Rush County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1974 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 030018
TORIND
INC031-139-030045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
718 PM EST THU JUL 2 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...DECATUR COUNTY...RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 710 PM AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS REPORTED
AT TORNADO 5 MILES HEAST OF SHELBYVILLE...ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
INDIANAPOLIS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 60 MILES
AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A` BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
MES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Owen	25 min
Jul 2, 7:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	25 min
Jul 2, 7:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Sullivan	33 min
Jul 2, 8:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Lawrence	68 min
Jul 2, 8:20 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	40 min
Jul 2, 8:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	49 min
Jul 3, 12:04 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Posey, Vanderburgh	3 hr

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.