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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1997, 3:15 PM EST for Blackford County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 2, 1997, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blackford County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:40 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Montpellier, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
917 WUUS1 KFWA 022017 RRA SVRFWA INC001-009-075-022100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 315 PM EST WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTY...NORTHERN BLACKFORD COUNTY ...NORTHERN JAY COUNTY AT 310PM EST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE...OR FROM MOUNT ZION TO SALEM. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS INCLUDE MONTPELIER...BERNE... GENEVA...AND BRYANT. AROUND 305PM HALF INCH HAIL WAS FALLING IN NORTHERN BLACKFORD COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. REAUGH &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 1:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash, Whitley | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 1:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 2:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wells | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Wells | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 45 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.