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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 2:12 PM EST for Decatur County, Jennings County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 2:12 PM EST (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, IN, Jennings County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 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 071912 RRA SVRIND INC031-079-071945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 212 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA ...JENNINGS COUNTY AT 210 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF SEYMOUR TO 10 MILES WEST OF GREENSBURG. JUST BEFORE 200PM...TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN SEYMOUR. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND MOVING TOWARDS THE TOWN OF MOUNT VERNON. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF GREENSBURG. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR lOF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JAS &
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, Nov 7, 1:35 PM EST, 37 minutes before
INZ058-059-065-066-072>075-077>080-090>092-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 135 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CONNERSVILLE TO 30 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE... GREENSBURG...SALEM...NORTH VERNON...MADISON AND LAWRENCEBURG. AT 130 PM EST SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF RICHMOND TO ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE. RADAR INDICATES THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING ALONG THIS LINE ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST. HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 1:37 PM EST, 35 minutes before
INZ058-059-065-066-072>075-077>080-090>092-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 135 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CONNERSVILLE TO 30 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE... GREENSBURG...SALEM...NORTH VERNON...MADISON AND LAWRENCEBURG. AT 130 PM EST SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF RICHMOND TO ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE. RADAR INDICATES THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING ALONG THIS LINE ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 800 PM EST. HENDRICKSON
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.