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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

June 23, 1995Adams County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:06 PM EST for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 4:06 PM EST (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 4:45 PM EST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Adams County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 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 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 
TTAA00 KFWA 232107
SVRFWA
INC001-232145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
406 PM EST FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY
 
AT 405 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FORT WAYNE OR 3 MILES WEST OF DECATUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO
THE WEST AND CONTAINED LARGE HAIL.
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 4:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWells33 min
Jun 23, 5:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington34 min
Jun 23, 5:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash39 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.