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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

June 7, 1995Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 6:43 PM EST for Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 6:43 PM EST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 7:45 PM EST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KFWA 072343 RRA
SVRFWA
INC069-169-080045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
643 PM EST WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...HUNTINGTON COUNTY...NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
WABASH OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING HAIL
AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.
 
PERSONS IN ANDREWS INDIANA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GO TO A PLACE OF
SHELTER.
 
ADDITIONALLY ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF WABASH INDIANA AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
 
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.

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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.