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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 16, 1995Pike County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 9:16 PM EST for Pike County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 9:16 PM EST (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 9:45 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 6:00 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

INZ002>089-170000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
602 PM EST SUN JUL 16 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR
ALL OF INDIANA EXCEPT LAKE COUNTY...

AT 600 PM EST RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL PARTS OF INDIANA.  ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE ISOLATED.

THE STRONGEST STORMS IN CENTRAL INDIANA WERE JUST TO THE NORTH AND
WEST OF LOGPANSPORT...AND NORTH OF MARTINSVILLE...25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF INDIANAPOLIS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL
CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL.

ELSON

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 6:02 PM EST, 3 hours 14 minutes before

INZ002>089-170000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
602 PM EST SUN JUL 16 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR
ALL OF INDIANA EXCEPT LAKE COUNTY...

AT 600 PM EST RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL PARTS OF INDIANA.  ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE ISOLATED.

THE STRONGEST STORMS IN CENTRAL INDIANA WERE JUST TO THE NORTH AND
WEST OF LOGANSPORT...AND NORTH OF MARTINSVILLE...25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF INDIANAPOLIS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL
CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL.

ELSON

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:35 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

INZ002>089-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
735 PM EST SUN JUL 16 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA
THIS EVENING. IN EXTREME NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH BUT THEY WILL NOT BECOME
SEVERE.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTION OF
NORTHERN INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF GARY TO 20
SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF
SOUTHERN INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TERRE
HAUTE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST
FOR THE REST OF CENTRAL INDIANA.

HAINES

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:36 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before

INZ002>089-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
735 PM EST SUN JUL 16 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA
THIS EVENING. IN EXTREME NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH BUT THEY WILL NOT BECOME
SEVERE.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTION OF
NORTHERN INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF GARY TO 20
SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF
SOUTHERN INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TERRE
HAUTE TO 10V MILES SOUTH OF MADISON.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST
FOR THE REST OF CENTRAL INDIANA.

HAINES

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 9:01 PM EST, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	57 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.