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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 19, 1996Parke County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 5:40 PM EST for Parke County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 min. 4 reports 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: Apr 19, 1996, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1996, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Parke County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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
Apr 19, 5:49 PM EST	Hail 2.75	Rockville, IN
Apr 19, 5:53 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Mecca, IN
Apr 19, 5:56 PM EST	Hail 1	Bellmore, IN
Apr 19, 6:18 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mansfield, 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 192240
TORIND
INC121-192330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
540 PM EST FRI APR 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN PARKE COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ST
BERNICE IN VERMILLION COUNTY OR 15 NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE. THE STORM
PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN
PARKE COUNTY BY 545 PM EST.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
LINDSEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 10:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Putnam	53 min
Apr 19, 12:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Vigo	42 min
Apr 19, 4:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Parke, Vermillion	69 min
Apr 19, 5:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Putnam	50 min
Apr 19, 6:22 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hendricks	68 min
Apr 19, 6:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	54 min
Apr 19, 6:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Johnson, Marion	66 min

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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.