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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1995Gibson County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 11:40 AM CDT for Gibson County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Gibson County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1329 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 231641 RRA
SVREVV
INC051-231715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
1140 AM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
 
   ...GIBSON COUNTY
 
AT 1136 CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
EVANSVILLE...JUST NORTH OF BUCKSKIN INDIANA. THE GIBSON COUNTY EOC
REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN AS THIS STORM MOVED ACROSS OAKLAND
CITY INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. IF
YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGSz.
 
MM
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDShelby30 min
Jun 23, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke, Vermillion26 min
Jun 23, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1995Every 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.