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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Northern Indiana

June 20, 1988Paulding County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1988, 11:58 PM EDT for Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1988, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1988, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Paulding County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 6:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
545 PM EST MON JUN 20 1988

AT 540 PM EST RADAR AT SOUTH BEND SHOWED A LARGE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED
BETWEEN CHESTERTON AND MICHIGAN CITY INDI0ANA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN HAIL AND GUSTY WIND. IT
ALSO CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PUT IT CLOSE TO LAPORTE INDIANA AFTER
6PM EST.
JH
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:18 PM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
615 PM EST MON JUN 20 1988

AT 610 PM EST RADAR AT SOUTH BEND SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED
25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA ...ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF LAPORTE INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORM CAN CAUSE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WIND
...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD
PASS TO THE SOUTHWEST OF LAPORTE INDIANA.
JHR
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 9:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
805 PM EST MON JUN 20 1988

...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MOVES INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA...

AT 800 PM EST AN ISOLATED THUNDETSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 5 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM
CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY
WINDS.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND BY 9PM EST
WILL BE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTOMS
THAT EXTENDED NORTHWEST TO THE CHICAGO ILLINOIS AREA.

ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 9:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
840 PM EST MON JUN 20 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...

AT 837 PM EST AN STRONG THUNDETSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FORT WAYNE INDIANA AND 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND GUSTY WINDS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND BY 930PM EST
WILL BE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE AND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST
FORT WAYNE.

ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 10:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.