Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 1:00 AM EST for Parke County, Vermillion County, Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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
- May 3, 1996, 1:00 AM EST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Parke County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 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 030600 SVRIND INC121-165-167-030630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 100 AM EST FRI MAY 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...SOUTHERN PARKE COUNTY...SOUTHERN VERMILLION COUNTY ...NORTHERN VIGO COUNTY AT 1255 AM...RADAR HAD A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE NEAR NEW GOSHEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD ROSEDALE. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 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 INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DS
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, May 3, 12:21 AM EST, 39 minutes before
INZ035-036-044-045-060-061-067-068-030615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1222 AM EST FRI MAY 3 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WEST INDIANA... ONE STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF VINCENNES. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD EDWARDSPORT. THE STORM HAD DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND PROBABLY SMALL HAIL. ANOTHER STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCKVILLE NEAR TANGIER. IT WAS MOVING EAST TOWARD SHAD`ES STATE PARK. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL WERE LIKELY WITH THAT STORM. DS
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.