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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana

July 7, 1996Blackford County, Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 5:33 PM EST for Blackford County, Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 7, 1996, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1996, 6:15 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Blackford County, IN, Jay County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1996-07-07Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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 072234
SVRFWA
INC009-075-072315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
533 PM EST SUN JUL 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...BLACKFORD COUNTY...JAY COUNTY
 
AT 528 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN BLACKFORD AND NORTHERN JAY COUNTIES.
THE STORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTH OF HARTFORD CITY AND 10 MILES NORTH OF
PORTLAND. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND
HARTFORD CITY AND PORTLAND ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORMS.
 
DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 4:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley42 min
Jul 7, 4:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington44 min
Jul 7, 5:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWells52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.