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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1995Marion County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 7:34 PM EST for Marion County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1995, 7:34 PM EST (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1995, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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 240036 RRA
SVRIND
INC097-240100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
734 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN MARION COUNTY
 
AT 734 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE FAR NORTHSIDE
OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL
CROSS THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE CITY BY 800 PM EST.
 
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.
 
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, 1 hour 1 minute 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, 59 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, 7:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion	24 min
Jun 23, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	29 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.