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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Northern Indiana

July 29, 1999Branch County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1999, 9:47 PM EDT for Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 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 29, 1999, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1999, 10:20 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Branch County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 1999-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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 00:00Z on 1999-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 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
113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2353 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 3:32 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:32 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte48 min
Jul 30, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko41 min
Jul 30, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall32 min
Jul 29, 10:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWilliams44 min
Jul 29, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton48 min
Jul 29, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWilliams48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.