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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Northern Indiana

June 14, 2000Cass County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 4:08 PM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 14, 2000, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Cass County, MI

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 142111
SVRFWA
INC039-053-085-169-MIC027-142200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
408 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELKHART COUNTY IN INDIANA
  GRANT COUNTY IN INDIANA
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA
  CASS COUNTY IN MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 500 PM EST(600 PM EDT)

* AT 408 PM EST(508 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING    
  FROM NEAR LAPORTE TO 10 MILES WEST OF PLYMOUTH TO WEST OF          
  LOGANSPORT...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
  DOWAGIAC
  ETNA GREEN
  MENTONE
  NAPPANEE
  ELKHART
  WABASH
  SILVER LAKE
  LEESBURG
  WARSAW
  MARION

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS! 
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 420f9 8622 4121 8609 4042 8588 4039 8543
          4133 8566 4209 8579

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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 Jun 14, 2:14 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:14 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
214 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TSTMS SCATTERED ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON WITH MAIN SQUALL LINE
APPROACHING FROM IL WELL AHEAD OF SFC COLD FRONT AND UPPER TROF.
PREFRONTAL ACTIVITY WILL TAKE BULK OF LLVL MOISTURE EAST OF CWA
BY LATE TNGT WITH LEFTOVER CLDS AS FRONT MOVES THRU. IN BETWEEN
SYSTEMS ON THURSDAY WITH LESS HUMID AIRMASS. WARM ADVECTION
THEN STARTS AHEAD OF NEXT SHRTWV THURSDAY NIGHT. TSTMS COULD
MAKE IT INTO WRN CWA LATER THURSDAY NIGHT BUT WILL LEAVE OUT
UNTIL FRIDAY FOR NOW. CAT POPS TNGT THEN TOWARD HIGHER FAN POPS
FRI. OPENED RANGES ON TEMPS BETWEEN FWCS AND FANS. MAV LOOK TOO
WARM FRI. EXTENDED CHC OF SHWRS THRU SUNDAY WITH NEXT FRONT AND
UPPER TROF. WILL GO DRY ON MONDAY FOR NOW.

.IWX...NONE

RES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 2:13 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
213 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

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

0140 PM    CONVOY                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   VAN WERT                       REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.  LIMBS AND
                                          POLES DOWN.

0145 PM    2 S PAULDING              OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   PAULDING                       REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. TREES DOWN.

0207 PM    STEVENSVILLE              MI   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/14/00   BERRIEN                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	46 min
Jun 14, 3:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	49 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	46 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Branch	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.