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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

May 14, 1987Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1987, 3:47 PM EST for Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 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
May 14, 1987, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1987, 4:15 PM EST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Noble County, IN, Whitley 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 4:00 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 0Whitley, IN
May 14, 4:10 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 0Noble, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1987-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 92 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1987-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 142047
SVRFWA
INC113-183-142115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
347 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST INDIANA...NOBLE AND NORTHERN WHITLEY

AT 323 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHW
EST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA CITY
INDIANA MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

 HAYES

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 14, 1:51 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
150 PM EST THU MAY 14 1986

...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST INDIANA...

AT 1.45 PM EST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN GUSTY
WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED IN ELKHART COUNTY
AND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER THE WEST HALF OF LAGRANGE
AND NOBLE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA BY 2.40 PM.
PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS
AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.

PS
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:37 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
240 PM EST THU MAY 14 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST...

...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...

AT 2.35 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERED LAGRANGE
COUNTY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE CITY  OF LAGRANGE OR ABOUT
50 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVIONG TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND
WILL CROSS OVER ANGOLA IN STEUBEN COUNTY THEN INTO EXTREME
NORTHWEST CORNER OF WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO BY
330 PM EST ...430 PM OHIO TIME...
HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL =CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THESE STORMS.
PS
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:46 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
240 PM EST THU MAY 14 1987
.....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA
AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN....

AT 230 PM EST...THERE WERE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED THRU
NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE ONLY A FEW MILES WIDE BUT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING WITH STRONG GUSTY WIND POSSIBLE. THEY WERE GENERALLY
LOCATED IN A 50 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR RENSSELEAR INDIANA NORTHEAST
THRU SOUTH BEND TO LANSING MICHIGAN.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHERG REPORTED.
JH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 5:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.