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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1992, 5:38 PM EST for LaGrange County, Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1992, 5:38 PM EST (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 6:22 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWA 022238
TORFWA
INC087-113-022330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
538 PM EST THU JUL 2 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIANA
SOUTHERN LAGRANGE...NORTHWEST NOBLE
AT 530 PM A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF LIGONIER
THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES. TREES WERE
REPORTED DOWN WITH THIS STORM.
PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF TOPEKA AND ROME CITY
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.
KEEP AWAY FROM ALL WINDOWS. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT WASTE TIME
OP8ENING WINDOWS. THE TORNADO WILL DO THAT FOR YOU.
HAYESWhat 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, Jul 2, 3:28 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes 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 14 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 | Wabash | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 54 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 |
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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.