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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana

May 13, 2005Marshall County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 2:43 PM EST for Marshall County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2005, 2:43 PM EST (19:43 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2005, 3:13 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marshall County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 12:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 131942
SVRIWX
INC099-132030-
/O.NEW.KIWX.SV.W.0013.050513T1943Z-050513T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
243 PM EST FRI MAY 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 236 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF ARGOS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTH OF PLYMOUTH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
  BOURBON AND BREMEN...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4119 8645 4118 8608 4148 8606 4148 8645

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIWX 132013
SVSIWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
313 PM EST FRI MAY 13 2005

INC099-132023-
/O.CAN.KIWX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050513T2030Z/
MARSHALL IN-
313 PM EST FRI MAY 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN INDIANA

AT 310 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE 
AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. 
THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

IF YOU HAVE SEVERE WEATHER TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4119 8645 4118 8608 4148 8606 4148 8645

$$

HITCHCOCK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 3:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford	41 min
May 13, 3:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	48 min
May 13, 4:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	64 min
May 13, 5:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami	41 min
May 13, 5:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	52 min
May 13, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	33 min
May 13, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.