Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1994, 4:08 PM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 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 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, Apr 28, 1:27 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
INZALL-290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 125 PM EST THU APR 28 1993 IN INDIANA A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... EVANSVILLE...JASPER...VINCENNES... COLUMBUS...SHELBYVILLE AND MADISON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THdE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JEH
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 2:23 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
INZALL-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 220 PM EST THU APR 28 1993 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... EVANSVILLE...JASPER...VINCENNES... COLUMBUS...SHELBYVILLE AND MADISON. AT 215 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF INDIANA AND ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE STATE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGTON TO 5 MILES WEST OF INDIANAPOLIS TO ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LOGANSPORT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. EP
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:16 PM EST, 52 minutes before
INZALL-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 315 PM EST THU APR 28 1993 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO RICHMOND. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... EVANSVILLE...JASPER...VINCENNES... COLUMBUS...SHELBYVILLE AND MADISON. AT 310 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NEARLY ALL OF INdDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED AROUND BEDFORD AND SEYMOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. EP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Perry | 35 min |
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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.