Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 1:12 PM EST for Shelby County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 3, 1996, 1:12 PM EST (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1996, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 031813 SVRIND INC145-031900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 112 PM EST MON JUN 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...SHELBY COUNTY AT 110 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF SHELBYVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES. SHELBYVILLE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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.
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, Jun 3, 12:14 PM EST, 58 minutes before
INZ028>030-035>072-031830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1211 PM EST MON JUN 3 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 12 PM EST...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR TERRE HAUTE TO NEAR INDIANAPOLIS EAST TO NEAR RICHMOND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN INDIANA...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. SWAIN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:56 PM EST, 16 minutes before
INZ006>009-017-018-023>027-031>034-037>042-046>050-053>059-062>066- 073-074-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1253 PM EST MON JUN 3 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 10 MILES NORTH OF LINTON TO FRANKFORT TO PERU TO 10 MILES EAST OF ELKHART...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LINTON TO 5 MILES NORTH OF SEYMOUR TO LAWRENCEBURG. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE INDIANAPOLIS...MUNCIE...BLOOMINGTON....KOKOMO...CONNERSVILLE...FORT WAYNE...AND MARION. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CRLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SWAIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush | 30 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.