Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 3:06 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 3:06 PM EST (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 152007 RRA SVRFWA INC003-152045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 306 PM EST SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...NORTHERN ALLEN COUNTY AT 305 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING HAIL AND WINDS. PERSONS IN THE CITIES OF CEDARVILLE AND GRABILL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 15, 1:29 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
MIZ077>079-152035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 129 PM EST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BERRIEN...CASS...AND ST JOSEPH. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH INCLUDE...BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH ...NILES...CASSOPOLIS...DOWAGIAC...THREE RIVERS...AND STURGIS. AT 225 PM EDT...SOUTH BEND RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST WEST OF STURGIS. MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP FURTHER TO THE WEST IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. KEEP A LOOKOUT TO THE SKY FOR APPROACHING THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. SPRIGGS & 090 2010| WUUSx U6WWUS ejWTNT( `133 54000 70500t6WWUSZ $KWWCNJ R"WEPAr py WUUSt D `WWUS Ua`WWUS ~6WWUS (O6WWUS xd<jWTNT bv WUUS duMn6WWUSN sF6WWUS Z WUUS> \XWOUS @"6WWUS @ZWWCN _M WUUS pRf6WWUS p239 57011 70WWUS34KEVV 0
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 1:31 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
MIZ077>079-152035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 129 PM EST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BERRIEN...CASS...AND ST JOSEPH. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH INCLUDE...BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH ...NILES...CASSOPOLIS...DOWAGIAC...THREE RIVERS...AND STURGIS. AT 225 PM EDT...SOUTH BEND RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST WEST OF STURGIS. MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP FURTHER TO THE WEST IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. KEEP A LOOKOUT TO THE SKY FOR APPROACHING THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. SPRIGGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 44 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.