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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 18, 1995Cass County, Michigan

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 7:31 PM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 18, 1995, 7:31 PM EST (00:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 1995, 8:10 PM EST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Cass County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 181 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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, Apr 18, 5:21 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
INZALL-190500-

 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
 520 PM  EST TUE APR 18 1994

 IN INDIANA  A TORNADO          WATCH IS IN EFFECT  UNTIL MIDNIGHT
 AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...
 ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM FORT WAYNE TO COLUMBIA CITY AND EAST
 OF A LINE FROM COLUMBIA CITY TO 20 MILES WEST OF ANGOLA.

 SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANGOLA...KENDALVILLE AND FORT WAYNE.

 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 WEA|THER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
 LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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.