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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 5:41 PM EST for Jackson County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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
- May 28, 1996, 5:41 PM EST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:42 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland, IN | |
| May 28, 5:45 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Seymour, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 282243 TORIND INC071-282330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 541 PM EST TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 540 PM EST STATE POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR BROWNSTOWN...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEYMOUR. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH CROTHERSVILLE BY 600 PM EST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. ZIMMERMAN &
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, 4:07 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 |
Nearby
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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.