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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 3:54 PM EST for Parke County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 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 28, 1996, 3:54 PM EST (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 51 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 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 8.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 282056 TORIND INC121-282145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 354 PM EST TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...EASTERN PARKE COUNTY AT 344 PM EST...THE PARKE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO ONE HALF MILE SOUTH OF ROCKVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TOWN OF MANSFIELD IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. CT &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 68 min |
| May 28, 3:39 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Vermillion | 66 min |
| May 28, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 61 min |
| May 28, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Putnam | 68 min |
| May 28, 4:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Knox | 64 min |
| May 28, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess | 67 min |
| May 28, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 62 min |
| May 28, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan | 65 min |
| May 28, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 55 min |
| May 28, 4:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan | 67 min |
| May 28, 4:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 61 min |
| May 28, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Jackson | 57 min |
| May 28, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Marion | 61 min |
| May 28, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 53 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 64 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.