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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Northern Indiana

August 15, 1988Noble County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1988, 2:16 AM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1988, 2:16 AM EST (07:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1988, 3:15 AM EST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Noble County, IN

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2113 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
8.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 2:02 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Steuben28 min
Aug 15, 8:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Noble36 min
Aug 15, 3:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wells33 min
Aug 15, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Jay, Wells45 min
Aug 15, 9:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Paulding31 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.