Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 8:17 PM EST for LaGrange County, Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 8:17 PM EST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 190118 SVRFWA INC087-113-190145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 817 PM EST TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...LAGRANGE COUNTY...NORTHERN NOBLE COUNTY AT 815 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELKHART INDIANA OR NEAR LIGONIER. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS THE HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF LAGRANGE AND ROME CITY INDIANA BY 845 PM EST AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WA>TCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. RACY/CERRUTI
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, 6:18 PM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MIZ077>079-190020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 616 PM EST TUE APR 18 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 100 AM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INCLUDING ST JOSEPH COUNTY MICHIGAN UNTIL 100 AM EDT. THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNTIES OF THREE RIVERS...FAIRFAX...AMD STURGIS. AT 610 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES PER HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER BERRIEN COUNTY ALONG THE MICHIGAN SHORELINE BY 620 PM. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM WHEN STORMS APPROACH. SIMMONS/BOUDREAU
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 7:46 PM EST, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 745 PM EST TUE APR 18 1995 INZ006>009-017-018-024>027-032>034-190145- ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST/1 AM EDT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND ALL OF EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 742 PM EST/842 PM EDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST NORTHWEST OF LAGRANGE TO 45 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MARSHALL
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.