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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 7, 1993LaPorte County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1993, 1:15 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1993, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1993, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County LaPorte County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 282 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 1993-06-07Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1993-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 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
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 7, 10:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 10:04 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
INZALL-071700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1002 AM EST MON JUN 7 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST...BUT INCLUDES
ONLY ONE COUNTY IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE...LAKE
COUNTY.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE GARY...MERRILLVILLE AND CROWN POINT.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SjHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:55 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
INZ001>007-010-080100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1255 PM EST MON JUN 7 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL  8 PM EST
FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE THROUGH MUNICE AND 10 MILES
SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANDERSON...FORT WAYNE...LAFAYETTE...
SOUTH BEND...KOKOMO AND PERU

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
STEIGERWALDT
...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:58 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
INZ001>007-010-080100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1255 AM EST MON JUN 7 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL  8 PM EST
FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE THROUGH MUNICE AND 10 MILES
SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANDERSON...FORT WAYNE...LAFAYETTE...
SOUTH BEND...KOKOMO AND PERU

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOS*E TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

WJG
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:12 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
INZ001>007-010-080100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1255 PM EST MON JUN 7 1993

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL  8 PM EST
FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE THROUGH MUNICE AND 10 MILES
SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANDERSON...FORT WAYNE...LAFAYETTE...
SOUTH BEND...KOKOMO AND PERU

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEAT8HER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
STEIGERWALDT
...CORRECTED FOR TIME...

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDLaPorte, Saint Joseph4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.