Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 2:03 PM EST for Vigo County, Indiana. It was in force for 57 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
- May 8, 1996, 2:03 PM EST (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vigo County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Terre Haute, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 081904 SVRIND INC167-082000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 203 PM EST WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...VIGO COUNTY AT 200 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 10 TO 20 MILES WEST OF TERRE HAUTE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AND WILL SOON BE IN INDIANA. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FlOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. CONLEY
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 8, 1:38 PM EST, 25 minutes before
INZ043>045-051>054-060>064-067>073-075>089-090100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 138 PM EST WED MAY 8 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM EST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 8 PM EST. THE WATCH INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COVINGTON TO MOORESVILLE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBUS TO LAWRENCEBURG. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE TERRE HAUTE...BEDFORD... BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS AND NORTH VERNON. AT 130 PM EST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN ILLINOIS AND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS DURING THE PAST HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE WEATHER CAN OCCUR IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...KEEP TABS ON THE WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CONLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 3 hr |
| May 8, 5:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 3 hr |
| May 8, 8:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin | 4 hr |
| May 8, 8:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Sullivan | 4 hr |
| May 8, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen, Putnam | 59 min |
| May 8, 2:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Morgan | 61 min |
| May 8, 3:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 69 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess | 60 min |
| May 8, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Lawrence | 67 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 58 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 58 min |
| May 8, 3:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence | 35 min |
| May 8, 4:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jennings | 27 min |
| May 8, 4:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 28 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.