Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 3:08 PM EST for Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 3:08 PM EST (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Steuben County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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.
- 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 152021 SVRFWA INC151-152115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 308 PM EST TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...STEUBEN COUNTY AT 305 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 55 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA TO 40 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE OR FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANGOLA INDIANA TO 5 MILES NORTH OF KENDALLVILLE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS IN THE CITY OF ANGOLA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THEIR CITY. 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. 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, 55 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, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 47 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.