Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 5:28 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1992, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 6:20 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wabash County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 2, 3:28 PM EST, 2 hours before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 325 PM EST THU JUL 2 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST...11 PM EDT... AT 315 PM EST...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WESTERN LAKE MICHIGAN..THROUGH GARY INDIANA...THEN SOUTHWEST THROUGH KANKAKEE ILLINOIS. WIND GUSTS TO 77 MILES AN HOUR WAS REPORTED AT GARY INDIANA AS THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHED. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. AND WILL MOVE INTO LAPORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM EST. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THESE STORMS WILL APPROACH QUICKLY. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. TAKE SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. MOWERY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:24 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-022230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 422 PM EST (522 PM EDT) THU JUL 2 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EST/ 11 PM EDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA FROM SOUTH BEND TO LAFAYETTE. BY 515 PM EST... THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE ENTERING NORTHEAST INDIANA FROM LAGRANGE TO WABASH. THIS IS DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS ARE POSIBLE. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD DECIDE ONA PLACE OF SHELTER NOW. A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS ARE BEST. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER IN AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO THIS SAME SOURCE FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DUMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 5:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 5:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 6:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 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.