Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1993, 4:20 PM EST for Benton County, Indiana. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1993, 4:20 PM EST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1993, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 3, 10:30 AM EST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:03 PM EST, 17 minutes before
INZ004-012-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 402 PM EST (302 PM CST) SAT JUL 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 357 PM EST A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...OR 10 MILES WEST OF KENTLAND ACROSS THE ILLINOIS STATE LINE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST INTO INDIANA...AND THROUGH THE TOWNS OF KENTLAND AND ADE AFTER 430 PM. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON...JUST NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OOLITIC...AND HELTONVILLE BEFORE 5 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH. ELSON
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:03 PM EST, 17 minutes before
INZ004-012-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 402 PM EST (302 PM CST) SAT JUL 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 357 PM EST A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...OR 10 MILES WEST OF KENTLAND ACROSS THE ILLINOIS STATE LINE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST INTO INDIANA...AND THROUGH THE TOWNS OF KENTLAND AND ADE AFTER 430 PM. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON...JUST NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OOLITIC...AND HELTONVILLE BEFORE 5 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH. ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:26 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Morgan | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 6:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 73 min |
| Jul 3, 6:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 7:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Wayne | 116 min |
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Wayne | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.