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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Chicago, IL

July 2, 1997Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1997, 7:32 AM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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, 7:32 AM EST (12:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1997, 8:15 AM EST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Kosciusko County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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 1997-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 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 1997-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 6:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTElkhart67 min
Jul 2, 1:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFulton, Kosciusko54 min
Jul 2, 1:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTKosciusko54 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.