Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1997, 1:41 PM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 2, 1997, 1:41 PM EST (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 2:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Noble County, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 021843 RRA SVRFWA INC113-021915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 141 PM EST WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...NOBLE COUNTY AT 140 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR WAWASEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN LIGONIER...ALBION AND KENDALLVILLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS THIS DANGEROUS STORM APPROACHES. HAYES A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASI|ONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 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 |
| Jul 2, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 45 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.