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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

April 3, 1988Adams County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1988, 2:23 PM EST for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 1988, 2:23 PM EST (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 1988, 2:45 PM EST
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Adams 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 1988-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 510 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 1988-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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
Apr 3, 12:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen47 min
Apr 3, 2:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen35 min
Apr 3, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams52 min
Apr 3, 3:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Williams56 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.