Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 6:19 AM EST for Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1996, 6:19 AM EST (11:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 6:45 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Joseph County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSBN 271120 RRA SVRSBN MIC149-271145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 619 AM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SOUTH BEND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL ST JOSEPH COUNTY AT 615 AM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE INDIANA MICHIGAN STATE LINE SOUTH OF WHITE PIGEON OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF KALAMAZOO THIS STORM WHICH PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL IN NORTHERN INDIANA IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. CITIES OR TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE OAKWOOD AND STURGIS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. SIMMONS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 2:09 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
INZ010-011-013-015-019>024-028>031-035>038-043>045-051-052-060- 270800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 AM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTH XAND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA HAS EXPIRED. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. JAS
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 2:10 AM EST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
INZ010-011-013-015-019>024-028>031-035>038-043>045-051-052-060- 270800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 AM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA HAS EXPIRED. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. JAS
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.