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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana

May 16, 1996Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 4:53 PM EST for Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 67 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
May 16, 1996, 4:53 PM EST (21:53 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Whitley County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 239 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 781 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 236 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
781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 162154
SVRFWA
INC183-162300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
453 PM EST THU MAY 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL WHITLEY COUNTY
 
AT 450PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF FORT
WAYNE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA CITY NEAR SOUTH WHITLEY.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
SOME TOWNS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE SOUTH WHITLEY...TUNKER...PEABODY
...AND LAUD.
 
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FLASH FLOODING IS A
REAL THREAT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESSH.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
REAUGH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 1:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb33 min
May 16, 2:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley54 min
May 16, 3:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley46 min
May 16, 3:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wells54 min
May 16, 3:40 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, Whitley2 hr
May 16, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wells55 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.