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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana

April 10, 1999Fulton County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1999, 7:45 PM EST for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 65 min. 4 reports 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: Apr 10, 1999, 7:45 PM EST (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1999, 8:50 PM EST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Apr 10, 8:00 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Talma, IN
Apr 10, 8:00 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Rochester, IN
Apr 10, 8:00 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Rochester, IN
Apr 10, 8:03 PM EST	Hail 1	Rochester, 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

999 
WUUS53 KIWX 110044 RRA
SVRFWA
INC049-110150-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
745 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 850 PM EST

* AT 744 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ROCHESTER... MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  ROCHESTER
  AKRON
  KEWANNA
  TALMA

GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS LIKELY  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

TEH/TAR

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 Apr 10, 2:25 PM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 2:25 PM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
225 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

SORRY FOR THE LATE AND BRIEF AFD...BEEN DEALING WITH CRS.

ETA AND NGM IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING WITH BRINGING
LOW EASTWARD INTO NORTHERN OHIO. SEVERE THREAT LOOKS QUITE SMALL IN
IWX CWA...WILL NOT MENTION STRONG OR SEVERE IN IWX ZONES.
ELEVATED GENERAL THUNDER IS STILL A GOOD BET THOUGH.

LOW MOVES ON BY TOMORROW KEEPING US COOL AND SHOWERY. WRAP-AROUND
MOISTURE TOMORROW NIGHT WILL CONTINUE THE SCATTERED SHOWERS.
THICKNESSES AND 850 TEMPS INDICATE A FEW FLAKES OF SNOW COULD MIX IN
WITH THE SHOWERS LATE SUNDAY NIGHT BUT ITS NOT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO
WARRANT DEPRESSING THE PUBLIC BY MENTIONING IT IN THE FORECAST.

MONDAY WILL CONTINUE COOL AND CLOUDY AS LOW PRESSURE SPINS TO OUR
NORTHEAST AND HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES DOWN INTO THE UPPER PLAINS.

PREFER COOLER FAN/FMR TEMPS OVER FWC.

SBN WC 040/051 033/052 033 12754
FWA WC 041/052 035/053 034 12754
AOH WC 043/053 037/055 036 12754

.IWX...NONE

REAUGH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:37 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
637 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0633 PM    3 NW LA PORTE             IN    .75 INCH HAIL
04/10/99   LAPORTE                         SPOTTER REPORT

Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:37 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
637 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0633 PM    3 NW LA PORTE             IN    .75 INCH HAIL
04/10/99   LAPORTE                         SPOTTER REPORT

Local storm report, Apr 10, 7:09 PM EST, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
709 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0z705 PM    1 N SOUTH BEND            IN    1.25 INCH HAIL
04/10/99   ST.JOSEPH                       SPOTTER REPORT

Local storm report, Apr 10, 7:09 PM EST, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
709 PM EST SAT APR 10 1999

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0z705 PM    1 N SOUTH BEND            IN    1.25 INCH HAIL
04/10/99   ST.JOSEPH                       SPOTTER REPORT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 7:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Starke	59 min
Apr 10, 7:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	61 min
Apr 10, 7:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Marshall	67 min
Apr 10, 7:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	65 min
Apr 10, 7:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	25 min
Apr 10, 8:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	64 min
Apr 10, 8:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	63 min
Apr 10, 8:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Whitley	63 min
Apr 10, 8:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	64 min
Apr 11, 12:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami	35 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.