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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 4:07 PM EST for Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 68 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 28, 1996, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:38 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Cloverdale, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 282108 TORIND INC133-282215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 407 PM EST TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 405 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR AT INDIANAPOLIS INDICATED A TORNADO IN EASTERN PARKE COUNTY MOVING EAST TOWARD THE TOWN OF GREENCASTLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. rABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. 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, 3:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.