Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 3:23 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1996, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tippecanoe County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 242022 SVRIND INC017-157-242115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 323 PM EST WED JUL 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...TIPPECANOE COUNTY AT 315 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE BETWEEN ROUNDGROVE AND MONTICELLO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE LAFAYETTE AREA BY 330 PM AND THE CAMDEN AREA BY 340 PM EST. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE I|NTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. TUCEK
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 24, 1:14 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
INZ002>034-038-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 112 PM EST WED JUL 24 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN INDIANA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 8 PM EST. THE WATCH IS ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM THE SOUTH LAFAYETTE AREA TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE GARY...SOUTH BEND...FORT WAYNE... LAFAYETTE...KOKOMO AND MARION. IF YOU ARE IN NORTHERN INDIANA OR PLAN TO TRAVEL TO NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH CAUSE VISIBILITY AND POSSIBLE TRACTION PROBLEMS FOR DRIVERS. NOW IS THE TIME TO REVIEW THUNDERSTORM SAFETY PLANS. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED. DRT
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:15 PM EST, 8 minutes before
INZ002>034-038-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 316 PM EST WED JUL 24 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST... AT 310 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS THEN EASTWARD TO NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED FROM WARSAW TO JUST NORTH OF LOGANSPORT TO NEAR MONTICELLO AND FOWLER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...VERY STRONG WINDS...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AS WELL AS DANGEROUSLY LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. REVIEW YOUR SEVERE WEATHER PLANS NOW. BE PREPARED TO GO TO A SAFE PLACE IN THE INTERIOR OF YOUR hBUILDING. BOATERS OR OTHERS OUTDOORS BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. RPG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Cass | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll | 40 min |
| Jul 24, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.