Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 3:35 PM EST for Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 55 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 4:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 63 | Elkhart, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 64 min |
| Jan 18, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 64 min |
| Jan 18, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall | 49 min |
| Jan 18, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 61 min |
| Jan 18, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton, Newton | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, White | 46 min |
| Jan 18, 2:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 38 min |
| Jan 18, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Pulaski | 42 min |
| Jan 18, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Fulton, Marshall | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Saint Joseph | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaPorte, Starke | 42 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.