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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Northern Indiana

August 15, 1995Steuben County, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 182 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 1995-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 2:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange47 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.