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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Northern Indiana

October 29, 1996Grant County, Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 10:30 PM EST for Grant County, Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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, 10:30 PM EST (03:30 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 1996, 11:15 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Wells County, IN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 29, 10:30 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 54Wells County, IN
Oct 29, 10:35 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 55Marion, 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 00:00Z on 1996-10-30Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-10-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 437 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
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

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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
Oct 29, 9:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash, Whitley47 min
Oct 29, 9:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Noble47 min
Oct 29, 10:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant43 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant, Huntington, Wells46 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben46 min
Oct 29, 10:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford46 min
Oct 29, 10:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford45 min
Oct 29, 10:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben45 min
Oct 29, 10:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen47 min
Oct 29, 10:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams, Jay66 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.