Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1999, 1:36 PM EST for Montgomery County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 11, 1999, 1:36 PM EST (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1999, 2:10 PM EST
- In force
- 34 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 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:35 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1235 PM EST FRI JUN 11 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1207 PM 4 W LINTON IN WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
REPORTED BY COUNTY
SHIRIFF.Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:35 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1235 PM EST FRI JUN 11 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1207 PM 4 W LINTON IN WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
REPORTED BY COUNTY
SHIRIFF.Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:46 PM EST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1246 PM EST FRI JUN 11 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1244 PM BRAZIL IN WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99 CLAY TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
COUNTY SHERIFF.Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:46 PM EST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1246 PM EST FRI JUN 11 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1244 PM BRAZIL IN WIND DAMAGE
06/11/99 CLAY TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
COUNTY SHERIFF.The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 2:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll | 46 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.