Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 11:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSBN 280249 RRA SVRSBN MIC021-280335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 948 PM EST THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1135 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...BERRIEN COUNTY MICHIGAN AT 1045 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES WEST OF BENTON HARBOR OR 28 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND TO 3 MILES WEST OF SAWYER OR 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND. GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH...SAWYER...BRIDGMAN... AND BARODA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. SPRIGGS
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 27, 6:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
INZ001>092-280500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 551 PM EST THU JUL 27 1995 IN INDIANA...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST...AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM RENSSELAER TO LAPORTE /20 MILES WEST OF SOUTH BEND/. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE GARY...VALPARAISO AND RENSSELAER. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS 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. ZIMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
INZ002-003-010-011-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 754 PM EST THU JUL 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT/EST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING SOME REPORTS OF TORNADOES...HAVE BEEN MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN ILLINOIS THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA AFTER 830 PM CDT/EST. SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION...OR SEVERE WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR LOCATION. ZIMMERMAN
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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.