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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana

June 7, 1995Allen County, Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 7:20 PM EST for Allen County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 7:20 PM EST (00:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 7:45 PM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Allen County, IN, Wells County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1464 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 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
1464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 080021 RRA
SVRFWA
INC003-179-080045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
720 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
 
   ...SOUTHERN ALLEN COUNTY...WELLS COUNTY
 
AT 720 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
HUNTINGTON OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL.
 
PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF OSSIAN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GO TO A PLACE
OF SAFETY.
 
 
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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:04 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXHuntington26 min
Jun 7, 7:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams28 min
Jun 7, 10:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley36 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.