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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 2:06 PM EST for Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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
- May 16, 1996, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1996, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Whitley County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:10 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Larwill, 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 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 161907 SVRFWA INC183-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 206 PM EST THU MAY 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...WHITLEY COUNTY AT 205PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA CITY IN THE PIERCETON AREA. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE COLUMBIA CITY...LARWILL... SOUTH WHITLEY...AND COESSE. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL...AND VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM THE WEST ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL. 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 LOW*EST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| May 16, 3:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 46 min |
| May 16, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wells | 54 min |
| May 16, 3:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 2 hr |
| May 16, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wells | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.