Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1993, 8:11 AM EST for DeKalb County, Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1993, 8:11 AM EST (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1993, 8:47 AM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, IN, Steuben County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Jun 14, 7:10 AM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-141400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 710 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS MORNING... AT 700 AM EST/800 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN TO 25 MILES EAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA TO 50 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR ROCHESTER INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BY 900 AM EST OR 1000 AM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO FORT WAYNE TO MARION INDIANA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND STAY INSIDE AS THE STORMS PASS. HAYES
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:12 AM EST, 59 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-141400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 710 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS MORNING... AT 700 AM EST/800 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN TO 25 MILES EAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA TO 50 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR ROCHESTER INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BY 900 AM EST OR 1000 AM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO FORT WAYNE TO MARION INDIANA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND STAY INSIDE AS THE STORMS PASS. HAYES
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:25 AM EST, 46 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-141320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 725 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ROLL ACROSS MICHIANA... AT 720 AM EST/820 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND...NEAR MENDON MICHIGAN ...TO 10 MILES EAST OF ELKHART...AND THEN THROUGH ROCHESTER INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF GOSHEN TO 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW. THESE STORMS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTH BEND AND ELKHART. THEY ALSO PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL NEAR SRYACUSE AND MENTONE INDIANA. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN STURGIS MICHIGAN...AND WARSAW...SYRACUSE...AND CLAYPOOL INDIANA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS. WHEN THEY APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARJENBRUCH CORRECTED TO ADD LAST LINE
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:26 AM EST, 45 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-141320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 725 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ROLL ACROSS MICHIANA... AT 720 AM EST/820 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND...NEAR MENDON MICHIGAN ...TO 10 MILES EAST OF ELKHART...AND THEN THROUGH ROCHESTER INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF GOSHEN TO 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW. THESE STORMS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTH BEND AND ELKHART. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN STURGIS MICHIGAN...AND WARSAW...SYRACUSE...AND CLAYPOOL INDIANA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS. WHEN THEY APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. . BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:28 AM EST, 43 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-141320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...AMENDED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 725 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ROLL ACROSS MICHIANA... AT 720 AM EST/820 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND...NEAR MENDON MICHIGAN ...TO 10 MILES EAST OF ELKHART...AND THEN THROUGH ROCHESTER INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF GOSHEN TO 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW. THESE STORMS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTH BEND AND ELKHART. THEY ALSO PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL NEAR SRYACUSE AND MENTONE INDIANA. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN STURGIS MICHIGAN...AND WARSAW...SYRACUSE...AND CLAYPOOL INDIANA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS. WHEN THEY APPROACH...TAKE . BARJENBRUCH ADDED REPORTS OF PEA SIZED HAIL
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:32 AM EST, 39 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-141320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 725 AM EST MON JUN 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ROLL ACROSS MICHIANA... AT 720 AM EST/820 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND...NEAR MENDON MICHIGAN ...TO 10 MILES EAST OF ELKHART...AND THEN THROUGH ROCHESTER INDIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF GOSHEN TO 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW. THESE STORMS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTH BEND AND ELKHART. THEY ALSO PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL NEAR SRYACUSE AND MENTONE INDIANA. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN STURGIS MICHIGAN...AND WARSAW...SYRACUSE...AND CLAYPOOL INDIANA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS. WHEN THEY APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARJENBRUCH CORRECTED TO ADD LAST LINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 2:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Wells | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 51 min |
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.