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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Indianapolis, IN

January 18, 1996Saint Joseph County, Michigan

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 4:21 PM EST for Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jan 18, 1996, 4:21 PM EST (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Jan 18, 1996, 5:05 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Joseph County, MI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 18, 4:45 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 63Three Rivers, MI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 1996-01-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 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 KSBN 182122 RRA
SVRSBN
MIC027-149-182205-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN
421 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 505 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...EASTERN CASS COUNTY
   ...ST JOSEPH COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM...A REPORT FROM THE FAA IN ELKHART CONFIRMED A 60 KNOT WIND
GUST FROM A THIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD JUST MOVED THROUGH
AROUND 410 PM.  THIS THIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM CALVIN
CENTER...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND SOUTHWARD TO SYRACUSE
INDIANA...OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND.

MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE IS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  SOME
COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS ARE...JONES...
MARCELLUS...THREE RIVERS...CENTREVILLE...WHITE PIGEON AND CONSTANTINE.

EXPECT SOME WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS DOF 60 MPH WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY
MOVE THROUGH.
 
SPRIGGS
&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 4:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCass20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.