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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 23, 1995Daviess County, Knox County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 1:29 PM EST for Daviess County, Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 1:29 PM EST (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 2:30 PM EST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Daviess County, IN, Knox County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1457 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 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 23, 1:24 PM EST, 5 minutes before
INZ042-047>089-240000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
124 PM EST SUN JUL 23 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ABOUT THE SOUTH
HALF OF INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST...

THE WATCH IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TERRE HAUTE TO WINCHESTER. SOME
CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE TERRE HAUTE...INDIANAPOLIS...
RICHMOND...VINCENNES...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS..EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD
AND MADISON.

PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER
OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

AT 115 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM FROM EAST OF
MONTICELLO...TO INDIANAPOLIS TO SULLIVAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST.

DS
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 1:25 PM EST, 4 minutes before
INZ042-047>089-240000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
124 PM EST SUN JUL 23 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ABOUT THE SOUTH
HALF OF INDIANA UNTIL 700 PM EST...

THE WATCH IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TERRE HAUTE TO WINCHESTER. SOME
CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE TERRE HAUTE...INDIANAPOLIS...
RICHMOND...VINCENNES...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS..EVANSVILLE...BEDFORD
AND MADISON.

PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER
OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

AT 115 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM FROM EAST OF
MONTICELLO...FTO INDIANAPOLIS TO SULLIVAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST.

DS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 2:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion52 min
Jul 23, 2:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMartin35 min
Jul 23, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDubois57 min
Jul 23, 4:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPerry, Spencer54 min
Jul 23, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenderson, Union, Webster57 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.