Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1994, 6:32 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1994, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1994, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 20, 3:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 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, 3:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 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, 3:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
INZALL-210200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 428 PM EST WED JUL 20 1994 IN INDIANA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... SOUTH BEND...ANGOLA...LOGANSPORT... RENSSELAER AND FORT WAYNE. 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
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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.