Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 2:17 PM EST for Clay County, Sullivan County, Indiana. It was in force for 58 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, 2:17 PM EST (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IN, Sullivan County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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, 2:38 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Brazil, 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 299 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 081918 SVRIND INC153-021-082015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 217 PM EST WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...SULLIVAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...CLAY COUNTY AT 215 PM EST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE LINE. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE STORMS ARE SULLIVAN AND BRAZIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 39 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, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vigo | 57 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.