Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 6:54 PM EST for Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 28, 1997, 6:54 PM EST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tipton County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 2613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 282356 RRA SVRIND INC159-290045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 654 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL INDIANA ...TIPTON COUNTY AT 655 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR TIPTON AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH TIPTON AND HOBBS BY 730 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHAdNGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. EDDY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Mar 28, 6:35 PM EST, 19 minutes before
INZ054-062-290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 635 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 AT 629 PM EST...AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL ON US37 JUST SOUTH OF THE MORGAN COUNTY LINE. IF DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER. CONLEY &
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:37 PM EST, 17 minutes before
INZ054-062-290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 635 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 AT 629 PM EST...AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL ON US37 JUST SOUTH OF THE MORGAN COUNTY LINE. IF DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER. CONLEY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 5:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vigo | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 56 min |
| Mar 28, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 6:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 63 min |
| Mar 28, 6:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Marion | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 6:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 69 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.