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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 10, 1996Rush County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 3:30 PM EST for Rush County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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 10, 1996, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Rush County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 3:35 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Rushville, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIND 102031
SVRIND
INC139-102115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
330 PM EST FRI MAY 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF
SHELBYVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE TOWN OF RUSHVILLE IS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
LINDSEY

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 37 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 2:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Marion	51 min
May 10, 2:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Monroe, Owen	43 min
May 10, 2:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Morgan	53 min
May 10, 2:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	47 min
May 10, 2:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson	51 min
May 10, 3:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Shelby	50 min
May 10, 3:21 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Monroe, Owen	2 hr
May 10, 3:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.