Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1994, 3:49 PM EST for Cass County, Indiana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1994, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1994, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 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 KIND 202050 RRA SVRIND INC017-202145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 349 PM EST WED JUL 20 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...CASS COUNTY AT 350 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT IN CASS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR THE CITY OF LOGANSPORT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. MES
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 20, 2:06 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
INZ028-029-035-036-043>045-051>053-202010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 206 PM EST WED JUL 20 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 200 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE OVER VERMILLION COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF NEWPORT. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THESE STORM WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERAL OF THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING ALONG THE SAME PATH. THIS MAY RESULT IN SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 2:07 PM EST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
INZ028-029-035-036-043>045-051>053-202010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 206 PM EST WED JUL 20 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 200 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE OVER VERMILLION COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF NEWPORT. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THESE STORM WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERAL OF THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING ALONG THE SAME PATH. THIS MAY RESULT IN SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 2:55 PM EST, 54 minutes before
INZ028>031-035>040-043>048-051>056-064-065-202055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 255 PM EST WED JUL 20 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL INDIANA.... AT 250 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CLINTON COUNTY...JUST WEST OF FRANKFORT...AND IN PARKE COUNTY WEST OF SHADES STATE PARK. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE COLFAX AREA OF SOUTHWEST CLINTON COUNTY AROUND 240 PM. SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN FOUNTAIN COUNTY NEAR I-74 AROUND 250 PM. SINCE MANY OF THESE STORMS ARE FOLLOWING ALONG THE SAME PATH MANY AREAS WILL ALSO RECEIVE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
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.