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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 3:30 AM EST for Montgomery 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 24, 1996, 3:30 AM EST (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 240832 SVRIND INC107-240900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 330 AM EST FRI MAY 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 325 AM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND THE TOWNS OF DARLINGTON AND GARFIELD ARE 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. JEH
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 24, 1:25 AM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
INZ028>030-035>049-240730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 125 AM EST FRI MAY 24 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN VERMILLION...FOUNTAIN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES AT 123 AM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING EAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING FROM NEAR MUNCIE TO FRANKFORT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 30 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. LASHLEY
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:19 AM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
INZ028>030-035>040-240845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 219 AM EST FRI MAY 24 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 215 AM EST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS TO ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THE STONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING JUST NORTHEAST OF LEBANON AND ALSO ABOUT 15 MILES WEST NORHTWEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. JEH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Montgomery | 7 hr |
| May 24, 4:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Marion, Morgan | 51 min |
| May 24, 6:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.