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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

April 12, 1996LaGrange County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 1:38 PM EST for LaGrange County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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
Apr 12, 1996, 1:38 PM EST (18:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1996, 2:15 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County LaGrange County, IN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 12, 2:05 PM ESTHail 0.75Howe, Indiana, IN

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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 1996-04-12Temperature 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 1996-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 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 121838
SVRFWA
INC087-121915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
138 PM EST FRI APR 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN LAGRANGE COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 45 MILES NORTHWEST
OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA OR 10 MILES WEST OF LAGRANGE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND CONTAINED DAMAGING HAIL.
PERSONS IN THE CITY OF LAGRANGE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO RIN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.