Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1994, 11:42 AM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1994, 11:42 AM EST (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1994, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wabash County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 2, 8:14 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:18 AM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-006-008-007-024-026-017-OHZ004-015- 001-021515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 918 AM EST (1018 AM EDT) SAT JUL 2 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS MORNING... AT 915 AM EST/1015 AM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE BETWEEN BLUFFTON AND DECATUR INDIANA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 1015 AM EST/1115 AM EDT...THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. KOPSKY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:18 AM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-006-008-007-024-026-017-OHZ004-015- 001-021515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 918 AM EST (1018 AM EDT) SAT JUL 2 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS PART OF NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS MORNING... AT 915 AM EST/1015 AM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE BETWEEN BLUFFTON AND DECATUR INDIANA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 1015 AM EST/1115 AM EDT...THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. KOPSKY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:04 AM EST, 38 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-006-008-007-024-026-017-OHZ004-015- 001-021715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1104 AM EST (1204 PM EDT) SAT JUL 2 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING BACK INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA LATE THIS MORNING... AT 1100 AM EST/1200 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES WEST OF WABASH INDIANA OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 1200 PM EST/100 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILE SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION INDIANA. KOPSKY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:04 AM EST, 38 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-006-008-007-024-026-017-OHZ004-015- 001-021715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1104 AM EST (1204 PM EDT) SAT JUL 2 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING BACK INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA LATE THIS MORNING... AT 1100 AM EST/1200 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES WEST OF WABASH INDIANA OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 1200 PM EST/100 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILE SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION INDIANA. KOPSKY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wells | 34 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.