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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana

July 15, 1995Steuben County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 3:24 PM EST for Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 4:00 PM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Steuben County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2755 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -170 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-10.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 152025 RRA
SVRFWA
INC151-152100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
324 PM EST SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN STEUBEN COUNTY
 
AT 325 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES NORTH OF
FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANGOLA IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING
WINDS.
 
PERSONS IN THE CITY OF ASHLEY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GO TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRIBNG...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.
 
MARSHALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 2:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange32 min
Jul 15, 3:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen39 min
Jul 15, 3:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb44 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.