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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 7:54 PM EST for Madison County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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, 7:54 PM EST (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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, 8:25 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Pendleton, IN | |
| Jun 23, 8:35 PM EST | Hail 1.5 | Anderson, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 240055 TORIND INC095-240130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 754 PM EST SUN JUN 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...MADISON COUNTY AT 752 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PENDLETON...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDERSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH TOWARDS THE TOWNS OF PENDLETON AND ANDERSON. 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. 4 ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone | 44 min |
| 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, 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.