Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 2:43 PM EST for LaGrange County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 2:43 PM EST (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County LaGrange County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 151943 SVRFWA INC087-152030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 243 PM EST TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...LAGRANGE COUNTY AT 240 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAGRANGE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING HAIL AND WINDS. PERSONS IN THE CITY OF LAGRANGE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THIS THUNDERSTORMS PASSES OVER THE CITY. MARSHALL
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, Aug 15, 2:13 PM EST, 30 minutes before
MIZ077>079-152115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 212 PM EST TUE AUG 15 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 900 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE COUNTIES OF BERRIEN...CASS..AND ST JOSEPH IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH ARE...BENTON HARBOR...ST JOSEPH... NILES...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...THREE RIVERS...AND STURGIS. AT 305 PM EDT...SOUTH BEND RADAR INDICATED MULTIPLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BERRIEN COUNTY...IN THE MILBURG... WATERVLIET...AND JUST EAST OF SODUS AS WELL AS IN CASS COUNTY...FROM TWIN LAKES IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY TO CASSOPOLIS TO EAGLE LAKE. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH IN STEVENSVILLE...AND SODUS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST WEST OF TWIN LAKES. LARGE TREES HAVE BEEN DOWNED IN THE CASSOPOLIS AND STEVENSVILLE AREAS AS WELL AS AT SEVERAL OTHER LOCATIONS. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SECTIONS OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY MICHIGAN BY 400 PM EDT. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RvADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. SPRIGGS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 67 min |
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.