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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1986, 3:23 PM EST for LaGrange County, Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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
- May 6, 1986, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1986, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:43 PM EST | Hail 1 | Noble, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 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 KFWA 062031 COR SVRFWA INC087-113-062100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 323 PM EST TUE MAY 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA...LAGRANGE AND NORTHWEST NOBLE AT 315PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF LIGONIER INDIANA WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..LARGE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, May 6, 10:05 AM EST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 955 AM EST TUE MAY 6 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF ELKHART COUNTY INDIANA AND ST. JOSEPH COUNTY MICHIGAN.... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED SMALL HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS.. AND BREIF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVED THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN BETWEEN 8 AND 930 AM EST HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF ELKHART COUNTY INDIANA AND ST JOSEPH COUNTY MICHIGAN. RAINFALL TOTALED .65 INCH AT MICHIANA REGIONAL AIRPORT BETWEEN 805 AM AND 910 AM EST THIS MORNING. HAIL RANGING FROM 1/4 INCH TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED AT MISHAWAKA INDIANA..ELKHART INDIANA..AND STURGIS MICHIGAN AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED TO THE MISHAWAKA POLICE AT THE TOWN AND COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER AROUND 830 AM EST. MISHAWAKA AND SOUTH BEND CITY POLICE IN THE AREA AT THE TIME COULD NOT CONFIRM THE REPORT. MOWERY
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:46 PM EST, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 245 PM EST TUE MAY 6 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM EST FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.... AT 235 PM EST..A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND NEAR NAPANEE INDIANA. THIS THUNDERTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN ELKHART AND NORTHERN KOSCUISKO COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA BY 330 PM EST. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN FROM CHICAGO ILLINOIS TO KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN AND ANGOLA INDIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. MOWERY
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:53 PM EST, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 245 PM EST TUE MAY 06 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA... AT 243 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIGONIER IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND CONTAINED STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..AND SMALL HAIL. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO LAGRANGE COUNTY BY 315 PM EST. SELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 25 min |
| May 6, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 26 min |
| May 6, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 81 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.