Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1994, 4:15 PM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1994, 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1994, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elkhart 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 235 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
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 KSBN 282117 RRA SVRSBN INC039-282200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 415 PM EST TUE JUN 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...ELKHART COUNTY AT 413 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ELKHART TO BREMEN INDIANA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND. THIS STORM HAD DROPPED 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT BREMEN AT 412 PM EST. IT WAS MOVING EAST/NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE TOWNS OF ELKHART...GOSHEN...AND WAKARUSA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. BARJELNBRUCH
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 28, 1:24 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
INZALL-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 124 PM EST TUE JUN 28 1994 IN INDIANA THIS TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE...EXCEPT FOR LAKE...PORTER AND NEWTON COUNTIES IN FAR NORTHWEST INDIANA WHICH ARE NOT IN THE WATCH AREA. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...ELKHART...ANGOLA... MONTICELLO...LOGANSPORT...FORT WAYNE...WABASH AND DECATUR. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGERWALDT /
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:26 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
INZALL-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 124 PM EST TUE JUN 28 1994 IN INDIANA THIS TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE...EXCEPT FOR LAKE...PORTER AND NEWTON COUNTIES IN FAR NORTHWEST INDIANA WHICH ARE NOT IN THE WATCH AREA. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...ELKHART...ANGOLA... MONTICELLO...LOGANSPORT...FORT WAYNE...WABASH AND DECATUR. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGERWALDT
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.