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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Northern Indiana

November 16, 1988Noble County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 1988, 4:50 AM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 16, 1988, 4:50 AM EST (09:50 UTC)
Expired
Nov 16, 1988, 5:15 AM EST
In force
25 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 1988-11-16Temperature 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 1988-11-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 16, 4:09 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash21 min
Nov 16, 4:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Whitley31 min
Nov 16, 5:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Whitley27 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.