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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Northern Indiana

October 29, 1996Huntington County, Wabash County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 9:43 PM EST for Huntington County, Wabash County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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: Oct 29, 1996, 9:43 PM EST (02:43 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 1996, 10:30 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Whitley County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 29, 10:10 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 58	Huntington, IN
Oct 29, 10:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 54	North Manchester, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 437 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 505 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 300244 RRA
SVRFWA
INC069-087-113-169-183-300330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
943 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...HUNTINGTON COUNTY...LAGRANGE COUNTY...NOBLE COUNTY
   ...WABASH COUNTY...WHITLEY COUNTY
 
AT 940PM EST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE MICHIGAN
STATE LINE NORTH OF GOSHEN INDIANA...55 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT
WAYNE...TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF PERU...OR 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH.
 
THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF WINDS TO 60 MPH KNOCKING DOWN POWER
LINES AND TEARING LIMBS OFF TREES.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WABASH COUNTY UNTIL 11PM.
 
 
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 BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
REAUGH
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 9:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble	47 min
Oct 29, 10:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	43 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wells	46 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	46 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford	46 min
Oct 29, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wells	45 min
Oct 29, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford	45 min
Oct 29, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	45 min
Oct 29, 10:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	47 min
Oct 29, 10:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.