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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1995Vermillion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 7:06 PM EST for Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1995, 7:06 PM EST (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1995, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Vermillion County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 KIND 240007 RRA
SVRIND
INC165-240030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
706 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF DANVILLE ILLINOIS NEAR PERRYSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING WEST
AT 15 MPH...AND WILL PASS THROUGH PERRYSVILLE AND CAYUGA BEFORE 720 PM
EST.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNINLG...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.
 
ZIMMERMAN

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 23, 6:33 PM EST, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
633 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995

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

628 PM     INDIANPOLIS               IN   0.75 INCH HAIL
6/23/95    MARION                         10TH AND GIRLS SCHOOL RD

Local storm report, Jun 23, 6:35 PM EST, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
635 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995

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

630 PM     5 SE KOKOMO               IN   0.88 INCH HAIL
6/26/95    HOWARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	29 min
Jun 23, 7:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	26 min
Jun 24, 3:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Dubois, Spencer, Warrick	53 min
Jun 24, 3:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Pike	42 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.