Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1994, 5:23 PM EST for Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 5:23 PM EST (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Joseph County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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, Sep 25, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
INZ010-011-019>021-028>031-035>040-043>048-051>056-060>064-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 200 PM EST SUN SEP 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 155 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE TO 30 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS NEAR TIPTON TO 20 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS NEAR GREENFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM IS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE. A SPOTTER IN OTTERBEIN...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THE STORM AROUND 140 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE TERRE HAUTE AREA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 2:01 PM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
INZ010-011-019>021-028>031-035>040-043>048-051>056-060>064-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 200 PM EST SUN SEP 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 155 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE TO 30 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS NEAR TIPTON TO 20 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS NEAR GREENFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM IS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE. A SPOTTER IN OTTERBEIN...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THE STORM AROUND 140 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE TERRE HAUTE AREA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. ZIMMERMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marshall | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marshall | 30 min |
| Sep 25, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Saint Joseph | 42 min |
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.