Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 4:03 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 4:03 PM EST (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1995, 4:25 PM EST
- In force
- 22 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, 9.1 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
- 907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 222102 RRA SVRFWA INC003-222130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 403 PM EST SAT JUL 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY AT 400 PM EST/5 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE GRABILL AND WOODBURN. VERY HEAVY RAIN...WINDS GUSTING OVER 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. 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.
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 22, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
MIZ077>079-222005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 100 PM EST SAT JUL 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 900 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF BERRIEN...CASS...AND ST JOSEPH IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 900 PM EDT. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH INCLUDE BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH...NILES...CASSOPOLIS...DOWAGIAC...THREE RIVERS...AND STURGIS. AT 200 PM EDT...SOUTH BEND RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON HARBOR AND EXTENDING BACK TO CHICAGO AND THE REST OF NORTHEAST ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS OVER LAKE MICHIGAN ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AFTER 245 PM EDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:01 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
MIZ077>079-222005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 100 PM EST SAT JUL 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 900 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF BERRIEN...CASS...AND ST JOSEPH IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 900 PM EDT. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH INCLUDE BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH...NILES...CASSOPOLIS...DOWAGIAC...THREE RIVERS...AND STURGIS. AT 200 PM EDT...SOUTH BEND RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON HARBOR AND EXTENDING BACK TO CHICAGO AND THE REST OF NORTHEAST ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS OVER LAKE MICHIGAN ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AFTER 245 PM EDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ME(ANS 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
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.