Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 2:21 PM EST for Fayette County, Franklin County, Union County, Indiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 2:21 PM EST (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1995, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 081921 RRA SVRILN INC041-161-047-082030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 321 PM EDT (221 PM EST) SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT (330 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 220 PM EST (320 PM EDT) DOPPLER RADAR IN WILMINGTON OHIO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MILROY...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF BROOKVILLE INDIANA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ANDERSON... LAUREL...AND ALPINE INDIANA. DANGELO/RANDALL
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 Apr 8, 1:33 PM EST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 1:33 PM EST, 48 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 230 PM EDT SAT APR 8 1995 LTST SFC ANLYS HS STNRY FNT ACRS CNTRL OH. ADAP SHWS LI/S IN -2 TO -6 RANGE ACRS OH VLY IN WRM SECTOR. GOOD CNVG ALONG FNT WHICH IS FOCUSING MECH FOR DVLPG CNVTN FRM NR CAK TO NR IN TO HUF. STG CNVTN OVR SW IN BTN IND AND HUF WITH VILS TO 56. THESE STMS APRS TO BE HAIL PRODUCERS BUT NO REPORTS YET. WK S/W INTIALIZED OVR NRN MO PROVIDING SOME UPR SUPP FOR TSTMS AS IT MOVS ACRS AREA THIS EVE. ANOTHER S/W MOVS FM PLNS INTO NRN IL BY 12Z SUN. THIS MORE SIG S/W SHUD ENCHANCE TRW CHCS LT TNGT INTO ERLY SUN. 70 KT H5 SPEED MAX ROT ARND BASE OF WRN US TROF INTO SRN PLNS ON SUN RESULTING IN CYCLGN OVR CNTRL PLNS LFTG INTO MID MS VLY MON. TRW CHCS SHUD DIMINISH DURG DAY SUN AS RDGG TAKES PLACE ALOFT OVR OH VLY AHD OF STG PLNS SYS. FLO BACKS LT SUN NGT INTO MON AS H8 50 KT JET PUNCHES INTO MID MS VLY WITH GOOD UVV WORKING INTO LWR OH VLY. TEMPS WI8SE...PREFER WRM FWC MOS FOR TNGTS LOWS. BASED ON TDA/S HI/S FAN NUMBERS APR TOO COOL SUN. WUD LIKE TO GO A LITTLE ABV FWC NUMBERS SUN. CVG 55/73/52 7/6/4 DAY 53/70/50 8/6/5 CMH 50/68/48 8/7/5 RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ripley | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ohio | 36 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.