Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1992, 5:18 PM EST for Cass County, Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 19 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1992, 5:18 PM EST (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 5:37 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cass County, IN, Miami County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 092220 TORIND INC017-103-092300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 518 PM EST WED SEP 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY...SOUTHERN MIAMI COUNTY AT 515 PM EST RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERU. THIS STORM MAY BE PRODUCING A TORNADO. PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF LINCOLN...MIAMI AND BUNKER HILL SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. GERY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 9, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
INZALL-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 220 PM EST WED SEP 9 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DECATUR. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... GARY...SOUTH BEND...ANGOLA... RENSSELAER...FORT WAYNE...LOGANSPORT...KOKOMO AND LAFAYATTE. 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 THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JEH
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:15 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
INZALL-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 315 PM EST WED SEP 9 1992 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DECATUR. SEVERAL AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE WATCH AREA... ONE AREA STRETCHED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THERE WERE SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA. ONE OF THE STRONGEST WAS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION NEAR HARTFORD CITY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM IN THIS AREA WAS JUST EAST OF MUNCIE A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR LOGANSPORT AND EXTENDED TO THE NORTHEAST FOR ABOUT 20 MILES. THERE WAS ALSO A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WAS ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN FROM ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE TO NEAR DANVILLE ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MES
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 4:00 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
INZALL-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 400 PM EST WED SEP 9 1992 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DECATUR. AT 355 PM EST A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUNCIE. SHORTLY AFTER 330 PM EST THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY. JUST BEFORE 400 PM EST OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ABOUT 30 MILES EAST AND NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE AND ALSO OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA FROM JUST WEST OF LAFAYATTE TO ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF KOKOMO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:12 PM EST, 6 minutes before
INZ004-005-007-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 510 PM EST WED SEP 9 1992 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DECATUR. AT 505 PM EST A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF LOGANSPORT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND IN THE BUNKER HILL AND MIAMI AREAS MAY RECEIVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS BY 530 PM EST. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST INDIANA NEAR FORT WAYNE. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HENDRICKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 27 min |
| Sep 9, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fulton, Pulaski | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 6:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Newton | 49 min |
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.