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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 6, 1994Saint Joseph County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 7:14 AM EST for Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1994, 7:14 AM EST (12:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 8:00 AM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Joseph County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1873 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDSaint Joseph50 min
Jul 6, 1:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLaPorte52 min
Jul 6, 2:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur33 min
Jul 6, 3:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush30 min
Jul 6, 4:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWayne43 min
Jul 6, 4:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Monroe, Owen25 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.