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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1996Tippecanoe County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 6:15 PM EST for Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 23, 1996, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Tippecanoe County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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
Jun 23, 6:45 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Lafayette, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 232316
TORIND
INC157-240000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
615 PM EST SUN JUN 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN TIPPECANOE COUNTY
 
AT 613 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LAFAYETTE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
INCLUDE ROMNEY...CONCORD...AND CLARKS HILL.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
ELSON

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 23, 5:44 PM EST, 31 minutes before

INZ001>092-240500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
0545 PM EST SUN JUN 23 1996

IN INDIANA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT
EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA  SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GARY TO
30 MILES EAST OF MUNCIE AND NORTH OF LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF
TERRE HAUTE TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF SEYMOUR. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT
WEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF SEYMOUR TO RICHMOND.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE  LAFAYETTE...MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...
BLOOMINGTON...TERRE HAUTE...RICHMOND AND GARY.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
IN AND CLOSE 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.

LC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	31 min
Jun 22, 8:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	25 min
Jun 22, 8:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown	45 min
Jun 23, 5:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Montgomery	50 min
Jun 23, 6:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Montgomery	27 min
Jun 23, 6:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.