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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Indianapolis, IN

October 17, 1996Boone County, Clinton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 1996, 8:11 PM EST for Boone County, Clinton County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Oct 17, 1996, 8:11 PM EST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Oct 17, 1996, 8:45 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, IN, Clinton County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 17, 8:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Manson, 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -122 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, Oct 17, 3:39 PM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

INZ002>089-180230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
340 PM EST THU OCT 17 1996

...THERE WILL BE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND MUCH COOLER AIR
TOMORROW...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER WEST INDIANA EARLY THIS EVENING. SEVERE
STORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL MOVE OVER EAST INDIANA LATER IN THE EVENING. STRONG STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE OVER EAST INDIANA.

A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH OUR STATE THIS EVENING. VERY MILD
SOUTH WINDS WILL CHANGE TO COOLER WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS. THE
COOLER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE STATE TOMORROW. TOMORROWS
TEMPERATURES WILL BE 20 TO 30 DEGREES COOLER THAN TODAYS...IN THE
MIDDLE B40S TO AROUND 50 DEGREES OVER NORTH INDIANA AND IN THE 50S
OVER THE SOUTH.

FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR OVER MUCH OF INDIANA
TOMORROW NIGHT. LOW TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE
30S.

DS

Special weather statement, Oct 17, 6:06 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

INZ019-021-028-029-030-031-032-033-034-035-036-037-038-039-040-
041-042-043-044-045-046-047-048-049-051-052-053-054-055-056-057-
060-061-062-063-064-065-067-068-069-070-071-076-077-081-082-083-
084-085-086-087-088-089-171800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
605 AM EST (705 AM EDT) THU OCT 17 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 1 AM EST FOR PARTS OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE AND NORTHWEST OF LINE FROM RICHMOND TO LOUISVILLE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE INDIANAPOLIS...BLOOMINGTON...
TERRE HAUTE...COLUMBUS...EVANSVILLE...LAFAYETTE AND KOKOMO.

AT 6 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...STRETCHED FROM CHICAGO TO
NEAR ST. LOUIS AND WERE MOVING EAST. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE
ACROSS INDIANA THROUGH 1 AM EST.

CONLEY

Special weather statement, Oct 17, 7:19 PM EST, 52 minutes before

INZ019-021-028>049-051>057-060>065-067>071-076-081>089-180230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
718 PM EST THU OCT 17 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1 AM EST FOR PARTS OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE AND NORTHWEST
OF LINE FROM RICHMOND TO LOUISVILLE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE INDIANAPOLIS...BLOOMINGTON...
TERRE HAUTE...COLUMBUS...EVANSVILLE...LAFAYETTE AND KOKOMO.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER WEST AND NORTHWEST INDIANA.
THE STORMS< WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

CES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 17, 7:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	32 min
Oct 17, 7:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	42 min
Oct 17, 8:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery	30 min
Oct 17, 8:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen	31 min
Oct 17, 8:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Owen	25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.