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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Northern Indiana

July 8, 1997Steuben County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 2:38 PM EST for Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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
Jul 8, 1997, 2:38 PM EST (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1997, 3:30 PM EST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Steuben County, IN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 8, 2:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1997-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1997-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 081938 RRA
SVRFWA
INC151-082030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
238 PM EST TUE JUL 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...STEUBEN COUNTY
 
AT 235 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF THE
CITY OF ASHLEY. PLEASANT LAKE IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS
STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
PAVLOW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 2:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange32 min
Jul 8, 5:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange49 min
Jul 8, 6:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSteuben51 min
Jul 8, 6:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange50 min
Jul 8, 6:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.