Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 2:17 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 2:17 PM EST (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ripley County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 3335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 KILN 151918 RRA SVRILN INC137-152000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 317 PM EDT (217 PM EST) SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST (400 PM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...RIPLEY COUNTY AT 217 PM EST THE WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF RIPLEY COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWNS OF OSGOOD AND LOOKOUT. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT JUST 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM WILL BE VERSAILLES...DELAWARE AND OSGOOD. PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING...HIKING...RAFTING...OR CAMPING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONARY ACTIONS NOW. REMEMBER THAT FLOODING CAN OCCUR VERY QUICKLY...EVEN IF IT IS NOT RAINING HEAVILY IN YOUR AREA. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DANGELO
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.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 15, 1:28 PM EST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 1:28 PM EST, 49 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 228 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 NO TIME FOR DISC THIS AFTN. SVR TSTMS ACRS WRN FA ATTM BLDG SLOWLY EWRD TWD CNTRL OH. STMS SLOW MOVG SO WL HAVE TO CONT TO WATCH FOR FLDG PRBLMS. ADAP CHARTS SHWG MOST UNSTBL AIR ACRS CNTRL OH IN AREA OF MAX HEATING SO ERWD TREND LIKELY TO CONT THRU AFTN. NMRS OUTFLOW BNDRYS EVIDENT ON RADAR SO MORE DVLPMT LIKELY ALG THESE. LTST VOL SCAN SHWG VIL OF 80...HIGHEST SO FAR TDA...OVR MIAMI CNTY. LOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:57 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
INZ074-058-066-075-073-080-059-050-OHZ081-025-035-079-070-052-053- 078-072-042-046-065-063-055-062-077-026-080-074-056-044-054-034- 051-061-015-064-082-060-016-088-043-045-024-071-KYZ091-097- 093-089-090-095-092-100-099-094-096-201-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1254 PM EDT (1154 AM EST) SAT JUL 15 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EASTERN INDIANA... WESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 7 PM EDT...WHICH IS ALSO 6 PM EST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 55 MILES AN HOUR...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...AND DANGEROUS HAIL COULD OCCUR IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH A SMALL SURFACE TROUGH THAT IS LYING OVER THE AREA HAVE COMBINED TO GIVE THE REGION THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PLEASE KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH AND BE AWARE THAT LIGHTNING CAN KILL. DANGELO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 1:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 4:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.