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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Northern Indiana

August 8, 2005Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 6:13 PM EST for Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 62 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
Aug 8, 2005, 6:13 PM EST (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2005, 7:15 PM EST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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 12:00Z on 2005-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2005-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 8, 6:10 PM EST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 6:10 PM EST, 3 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 1:00 PM EST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
100 PM EST MON AUG 8 2005

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-
005-015-016-024-025-091045-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-
STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-
WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-
JAY-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-
FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...
NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...
ROCHESTER...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...
SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...
LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...
BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...
MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...
BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...
COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...
NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT...
DELPHOS...LIMA
100 PM EST MON AUG 8 2005/ 100 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005/ 200 PM EDT MON
AUG 8 2005/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST
OHIO...NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...
NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.
HOWEVER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW
OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR
UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-061-091045-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
MICHIGAN CITY IN TO ST JOSEPH MI OUT TO MID LAKE-
200 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW
STORMS WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR
UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/MARINE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:09 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
509 PM EST MON AUG 08 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0503 PM     HAIL             FORT WAYNE              41.07N 85.14W
08/08/2005  1.00 INCH        ALLEN              IN   AMATEUR RADIO

            IPFW CAMPUS ON EAST SIDE OF TOWN

0506 PM     HAIL             1 E FORT WAYNE          41.07N 85.12W
08/08/2005  0.88 INCH        ALLEN              IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

ASTEVENS
Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:53 PM EST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
553 PM EST MON AUG 08 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0550 PM     HAIL             TRI-LAKES               41.22N 85.48W
08/08/2005  1.00 INCH        WHITLEY            IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE

&&

ASTEVENS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 3:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen51 min
Aug 8, 5:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen57 min
Aug 8, 5:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley56 min
Aug 8, 6:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble38 min
Aug 8, 6:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.