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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Northern Indiana

October 16, 1988DeKalb County, Steuben County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1988, 7:46 PM EST for DeKalb County, Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 1988, 7:46 PM EST (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 1988, 8:30 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties DeKalb County, IN, Steuben 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 00:00Z on 1988-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1988-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 230 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Oct 16, 6:13 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
615 PM EST SUN OCT 16 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING EXTREME NORTHEAST INDIANA...

AT 610 PM EST AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN TO
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST ABOUT 35 MPH.

PEOPLE IN LAGRANGE COUNTY CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS...ESPECIALLY
NORTHERN' LAGRANGE COUNTY...TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BEFORE 700 PM EST.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES.
HAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 7:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble43 min
Oct 16, 7:21 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXLaGrange, Noble39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.