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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 20, 1995Monroe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 7:06 PM EST for Monroe County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 7:06 PM EST (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1995, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 210009 RRA
SVRIND
INC105-210045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
706 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 700 PM STATE POLICE IN BLOOMINGTON REPORTED TREES DOWN FROM
THUNDERSTORM WINDS EAST OF BLOOMINGTON. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE WEST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH STANFORD.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICALL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:30 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
530 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1637 PM    PLAINFIELD                IN   0.75 INCH HAIL
6/20/95    HENDRICKS

1645 PM    SOUTH OF PLAINFIELD       IN   1.00 TO 2.50 INCH HAIL
6/20/95    HENDRICKS                      TRUCK AND TRAILER
                                          DAMAGED

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:36 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
530 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1637 PM    PLAINFIELD                IN   0.75 INCH HAIL
6/20/95    HENDRICKS

1645 PM    SOUTH OF PLAINFIELD       IN   1.00 TO 2.50 INCH HAIL
6/20/95    HENDRICKS                      TRUCK AND TRAILER
                                          DAMAG:ED

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:46 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

INZ001>092-210500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
546 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

IN INDIANA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST
AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES
NORTHWEST OF EVANSVILLE TO NEAR CINCINNATI OHIO.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE EVANSVILLE...JASPER...NEW ALBANY AND VEVAY.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS 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.

ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR
THE REST OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA.

ZIMMERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:15 PM EST, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
615 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1750 PM    MILROY                    IN   60 TO 70 MPH
6/20/95    RUSH

1805 PM                              IN   1.00 INCH HAIL
6/20/95    CLAY/VIGO COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:38 PM EST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
640 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

627 PM     SEELYVILLE                IN   50 TO 60 MPH WINDS
6/20/95    VIGO                           0.25 INCH HAIL

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:40 PM EST, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
640 PM EST TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

627 PM     SEELYVILLE                IN   50 TO 60 MPH WINDS
6/20/95    VIGO                           0.25 INCH HAIL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	45 min
Jun 20, 8:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Gibson	44 min
Jun 20, 8:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Spencer	41 min
Jun 20, 8:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Posey	44 min
Jun 21, 12:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	61 min
Jun 21, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock	60 min
Jun 21, 2:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	66 min
Jun 21, 2:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	47 min
Jun 21, 3:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Perry	59 min
Jun 21, 3:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	56 min
Jun 21, 4:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jennings	40 min
Jun 21, 4:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	60 min
Jun 21, 4:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	44 min
Jun 21, 4:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tipton	61 min
Jun 21, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion, Vigo	45 min
Jun 21, 4:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vanderburgh	33 min
Jun 21, 5:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	41 min
Jun 21, 5:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard	69 min
Jun 21, 5:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clinton	48 min
Jun 21, 5:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	40 min
Jun 21, 5:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Posey	31 min
Jun 21, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Miami	49 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.