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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 23, 1996Boone County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 7:01 PM EST for Boone County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 23, 1996, 7:01 PM EST (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Boone County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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, 7:15 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Lebanon, IN
Jun 23, 7:34 PM EST	Hail 1	Terhune, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 3075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 240002
TORIND
INC011-240045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
701 PM EST SUN JUN 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 
   ...BOONE COUNTY
 
AT 657 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST TO THE NORTHWEST
OF LEBANON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED
WITH THIS STORM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE LEBANON AND
STRINGTOWN.
 
ANOTHER INTENSE STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEBANON...ALSO MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH TOWARDS THORNTOWN.
 
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.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GETn INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
ELSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton	56 min
Jun 23, 7:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Hamilton	40 min
Jun 23, 7:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IND	Madison	36 min
Jun 23, 8:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	48 min
Jun 23, 8:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison	42 min
Jun 23, 8:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	51 min
Jun 23, 9:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	53 min
Jun 23, 10:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush	51 min
Jun 23, 10:42 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:46 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Carroll, Clinton, Howard	119 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.