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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 1996Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 6:06 PM EST for Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 54 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 9, 1996, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Whitley County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 1996-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 341 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 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 092306
SVRFWA
INC183-100000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
606 PM EST THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN WHITLEY COUNTY
 
AT 603 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN NORTHEAST WABASH
COUNTY...NEAR NORTH MANCHESTER...WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE INTO
SOUTHERN WHITLEY COUNTY BY 630 PM EST. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH WHITLEY
AREA...ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE...SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS
THIS STORM APPROACHES. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS.
HAYES
 
 
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.  LHEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 4:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange31 min
May 9, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.