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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 2, 1996Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 2:55 PM EST for Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1996, 2:55 PM EST (19:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 3:30 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Putnam County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 3:05 PM ESTHail 1Fillmore, IN
Jul 2, 3:25 PM ESTThunderstorm WindGreencastle, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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 2, 2:25 PM EST, 30 minutes before
INZ001>092-022030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
225 PM EST TUES JUL 2 1996

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THAT PART OF INDIANA BETWEEN
LAFAYETTE AND TERRE H6AUTE THROUGH 4 PM EST. THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

LISTEN TO LOCAL TV AND RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

CONLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:40 PM EST, 15 minutes before
INZ001>092-030200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
240 PM  EST TUE JUL 2 1996

IN INDIANA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST
AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST
OF CRAWFORDSVILLE...TO MARION...TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTLAND.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE...
RICHMOND...BLOOMINGON...COLUMBUS...EVANSVILLE...NEW ALBANY...AND
MADISON.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
r
ELSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 2:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDVigo50 min
Jul 2, 1:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain49 min
Jul 2, 2:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTippecanoe39 min
Jul 2, 2:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery, Parke51 min
Jul 2, 2:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDVigo50 min
Jul 2, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClay29 min
Jul 2, 3:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMorgan43 min
Jul 2, 3:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPutnam31 min
Jul 2, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDPutnam42 min
Jul 2, 4:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke29 min
Jul 2, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMiami25 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown44 min
Jul 2, 5:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJennings50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.