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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana

June 21, 1995Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 5:39 PM EST for Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 5:39 PM EST (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 6:30 PM EST
In force
51 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, 10.7 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 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 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 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 212240 RRA
SVRFWA
INC069-169-212330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
539 PM EST WED JUN 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN HUNTINGTON COUNTY...NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY
 
AT 539 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST NORTH OF ANDREWS. THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 15
MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNTIES OF BIPPUS AND URBANA THROUGH 600 PM
EST.
 
LARGE HAIL AND WINDS OF OVER 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
 
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 WATElR CROSSINGS.
 
 
RACY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 5:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash48 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.