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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 21, 1995Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 12:59 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1995, 12:59 PM EST (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1995, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Rush County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KIND 211759 RRA
SVRIND
INC139-211900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1259 PM EST WED JUN 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 1258 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA ON THE RUSH-FAYETTE COUNTY
LINE...WHICH IS ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHMOND. THE THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE
RUSHVILLE AND ARLINGTON.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
LINDSEY

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 21, 10:00 AM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1000 AM EST WED JUN 21 1995

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

645 PM     CAMP ATTERBURY            IN   THUNDERSTORM WINDS
06/20/95   JOHNSON                        MASONRY WALLS BEING BUILT
                                          WERE BLOWN DOWN

DRT

Local storm report, Jun 21, 10:20 AM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1000 AM EST WED JUN 21 1995

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

645 PM     CAMP ATTERBURY            IN   THUNDERSTORM WINDS
06/20/95   JOHNSON                        MASONRY WALLS BEING BUILT
                                          WERE BLOWN DOWN

DRT

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:26 PM EST, 33 minutes before

INZ006>009-017-018-025>027-030>034-037>042-046>050-054>059-062>066-
070>080-084-089-211930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1225 PM EST WED JUN 21 1995

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL
800 PM EST.

SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE INDIANAPOLIS...MARION...RICHMOND
...SHELBYVILLE...COLUMBUS...GREENSBURG AND MUNCIE.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES NORTH
AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF
YOUNGSTOWN OHIO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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.

REPEATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR
PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA.

TA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe	39 min
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, 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.