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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana

May 16, 1996DeKalb County, Indiana; Defiance County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 1:27 PM EST for DeKalb County, Indiana; Defiance County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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 16, 1996, 1:27 PM EST (18:27 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 2:00 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties DeKalb County, IN, Defiance County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1996-05-16Temperature 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 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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 161828 COR
SVRFWA
INC033-OHC039-161900-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
127 PM EST (227 PM EDT) THU MAY 16 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EST (300 PM EDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHEAST INDIANA

   ...EASTERN DE KALB COUNTY


IN NORTHWEST OHIO

   ...WESTERN DEFIANCE COUNTY

AT 122PM EST/222PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FORT WAYNE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HICKSVILLE OHIO.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HICKSVILLE AND
ROSEDALE.

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 jROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

REAUGH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley54 min
May 16, 3:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley46 min
May 16, 3:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wells54 min
May 16, 3:40 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen, Whitley2 hr
May 16, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wells55 min
May 16, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.