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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Northern Indiana

May 16, 1996Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 7:46 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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, 7:46 PM EST (00:46 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 8:30 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Allen County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:18 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb3 hr
May 17, 12:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben3 hr
May 17, 3:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben3 hr
May 17, 12:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDefiance3 hr
May 17, 3:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXDefiance3 hr

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.