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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 10, 1996Shelby County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 3:10 PM EST for Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 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 10, 1996, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1996, 4:00 PM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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, May 10, 1:53 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
INZ001>092-110100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
153 PM EST FRI MAY 10 1996

IN INDIANA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST
AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA EAST OF A LINE FROM TERRE HAUTE TO
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE MARION...ANDERSON...MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...
TERRE HAUTE...SHELBYVILLE...RICHMOND...COLUMBUS...BLOOMINGTON...
VINCENNES...BEDFORD...SEYMOUR...MADISON...JASPER AND EVANSVILLE.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESJE AREAS SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ZIMMERMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:24 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMarion51 min
May 10, 2:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMonroe, Owen43 min
May 10, 2:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMorgan53 min
May 10, 2:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBrown47 min
May 10, 2:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson51 min
May 10, 3:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDMonroe, Owen2 hr
May 10, 3:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush45 min
May 10, 3:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew, Decatur53 min

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.