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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Northern Indiana

June 23, 1995Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 5:51 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 5:51 PM EST (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 6:30 PM EST
In force
39 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, 10.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KFWA 232251 RRA
SVRFWA
INC169-232330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
551 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...WABASH COUNTY
 
AT 548 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF FORT WAYNE OR NEAR SERVIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15
MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE IJAMESVILLE.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 4:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams39 min
Jun 23, 4:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWells33 min
Jun 23, 5:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.