Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1992, 9:23 PM EST for Grant County, Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1992, 9:23 PM EST (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1992, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2881 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
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, Jun 17, 4:24 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-172225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 425 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST...
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:43 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-172315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 540 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST/11 PM EDT. AT 538 PM EST /638 PM EDT NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST INDIANA AND WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA BY 7 PM EST/ 8 PM EDT. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. MARSHALL
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:25 PM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 625 PM EST WED JUN 17 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND MOST OF LAKE MICHIGAN UNTIL 9 00 PM EDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AT 6 15 PM EST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH...TOPPLING SOME TREES AND LIMBS AND CAUSING SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION AREA EXTENDED FROM KALAMAZOO... AND THREE RIVERS IN MICHIGAN...TO ELKHART AND ROCHESTER INDIANA AT 6 10 PM EST. SEVERAL UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE ENDING AT SOUTH BEND BY AROUND 7 PM EST. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTH CpENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS MOWERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 7:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 7:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 7:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 7:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Noble | 27 min |
| Jun 17, 8:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 21 min |
| Jun 17, 8:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 9:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 9:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 27 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.