Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1993, 1:19 PM EST for Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1993, 1:19 PM EST (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1993, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 KIND 021819 TORIND INC103-021845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 119 PM EST THU SEP 2 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...MIAMI COUNTY AT 115 PM EST STATE CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF LOGANSPORT. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERAL INJURIES. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAFILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
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 2, 12:25 PM EST, 54 minutes before
INZ004-005007-021830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1225 PM EST THU SEP 2 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA. AT 1215 PM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT TO 25 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWNS OF KENTLAND AND EARL PARK...WHICH ARE 30 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO. AT 1210 PM EST THE BENTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MILES IN FOWLER. PERSONS IN THE AREAS FROM WILLIAMSPORT NORTHEAST THROUGH LAFAYETTE...AND LOGANSPORT CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN FALL AND GUSTY WIND TO 40 MILES AN HOUR BY 130 PM EST. WJG
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 12:25 PM EST, 54 minutes before
INZ004-005007-021830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1225 PM EST THU SEP 2 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA. AT 1215 PM EST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT TO 25 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWNS OF KENTLAND AND EARL PARK...WHICH ARE 30 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO. AT 1210 PM EST THE BENTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MILES IN FOWLER. PERSONS IN THE AREAS FROM WILLIAMSPORT NORTHEAST THROUGH LAFAYETTE...AND LOGANSPORT CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN FALL AND GUSTY WIND TO 40 MILES AN HOUR BY 130 PM EST. WJG
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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.