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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 13, 1994LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 4:28 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1994, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 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, Jun 13, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
201 PM EST MON JUN 13 1994

IN INDIANA...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST
FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE ILLINOIS TO
RICHMOND INDIANA.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE GARY...SOUTH BEND...ELKHART...RENSSELAER...
FORT WAYNE...LOGANSPORT...LAFAYETTE...KOKOMO...MARION...FRANKFORT...
CRAWFORDSVILLE...ANDERSON AND MUNCIE.

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.

AT 200 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES
SOUTH OF GARY TO JUST NORTH OF SOUTH BEND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

ZIMMERMAN

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

INZALL-140100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
201 PM EST MON JUN 13 1994

IN INDIANA...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST
FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE ILLINOIS TO
RICHMOND INDIANA.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE GARY...SOUTH BEND...ELKHART...RENSSELAER...
FORT WAYNE...LOGANSPORT...LAFAYETTE...KOKOMO...MARION...FRANKFORT...
CRAWFORDSVILLE...ANDERSON AND MUNCIE.

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.

AT 200 PM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES
SOUTH OF GARY TO JUST NORTH OF SOUTH BEND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

ZIMMERMAN

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
304 PM EST MON JUN 13 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA...

AT 303 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME
NORTHERN INDIANA...FROM NEAR GARY TO ELKHART. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE FURTHER SOUTH INTO
INDIANA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ZIMMERMAN

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

INZ001>042-049-050-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
304 PM EST MON JUN 13 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA...

AT 303 PM EST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME
NORTHERN INDIANA...FROM NEAR GARY TO ELKHART. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE FURTHER SOUTH INTO
INDIANA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ZIMMERMAN

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Owen	34 min
Jun 12, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	43 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	40 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph	52 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Kosciusko, Marshall	41 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Kosciusko, Marshall	50 min
Jun 12, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Crawford, Jasper	67 min
Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Crawford	26 min
Jun 12, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	18 min

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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.