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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Northern Indiana

October 13, 1999Steuben County, Indiana; Branch County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1999, 9:54 AM EST for Steuben County, Indiana; Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 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: Oct 13, 1999, 9:54 AM EST (14:54 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 1999, 10:30 AM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Steuben County, IN, Branch County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Oct 13, 3:30 AM EST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 3:30 AM EST, 6 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:26 AM EST, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:26 AM EST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
926 AM EST WED OCT 13 1999

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

0843 AM    SOUTH BEND                IN    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/99   ST.JOSEPH

Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:40 AM EST, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:40 AM EST, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
940 AM EST WED OCT 13 1999

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

0913 AM    WAKARUSA                  IN    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/99   ELKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 8:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	33 min
Oct 13, 9:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	33 min
Oct 13, 9:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	37 min
Oct 13, 10:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Whitley	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1999 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1999 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.