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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1997, 9:28 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 62 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 26, 1997, 9:28 PM EST (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1997, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 9:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Ft Wayne, 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 26, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 4383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 270236 SVRFWA INC003-270330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 928 PM EST SAT JUL 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...ALLEN COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WAS OVER FORT WAYNE AT 925 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE FORT WAYNE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FROM THIS STORM. PEOPLE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TOWARD MONROEVILLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF SEVERE STORMS. HAYES WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROS8SINGS. CORRECTION FOR TIME OF STORM IN FORT WAYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 2:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 56 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.