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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1996Montgomery County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 6:33 PM EST for Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 23, 1996, 6:33 PM EST (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 232335
TORIND
INC107-240000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
633 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
 
   ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 631 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF
CRAWFORDSVILLE NEAR NEW RICHMOND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THERE HAVE
BEEN SEVERAL UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF POSSIBLE TORNADOES AND FUNNEL CLOUDS
WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE TOWNS OF LINDEN AND
KIRKPATRICK.
 
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.
 
ELSON

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, 6:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	45 min
Jun 23, 6:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.