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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 2006, 4:59 PM EDT for Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 27, 2006, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 27, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 355 PM EDT WED SEP 27 2006 .SHORT TERM... TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. QUICK GLANCE AT 1930Z RADAR...INDICATES SCATTERED RETURNS DEVELOPING EXPLOSIVELY ALONG THE PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH...BASICALLY FROM TOLEDO TO SOUTHEAST OF FWA TO KOKOMO. INVERTED V SOUNDINGS SUGGEST ANY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DOWNBURST WINDS AND HAIL. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE SCATTERED IN NATURE AND ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA WELL BEFORE MIDNIGHT. AFTER MIDNIGHT THE THREAT OF RAIN DECREASES AS STRONGEST DYNAMICS MOVE EAST WITH THE FRONT. VERY COOL AIR BEHIND THIS FRONT...AS ADVERTISED FOR SEVERAL DAYS...WILL MOVE IN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. CLOUDY AND COOL WEATHER WITH ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO KICK OFF A FEW SHOWERS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. && .LONG TERM... THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY... AMPLIFYING UPPER LEVEL TROF OVER NRN PLAINS TODAY WILL EVOLVE INTO A DEEP TROF LOCATED FROM HUDSON BAY THROUGH THE GRTLKS TO ERN GULF OF MEXICO AT START OF LONG TERM PERIOD. LOW LEVEL NW FLOW WITH DELTA TS IN THE UPPER TEENS AND CONSIDERABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD SUPPORT LAKE EFFECT SHOWERS ACROSS NE1/2 OF CWA, MOST WIDESPREAD NR LM, THU NGT. GIVEN EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND FLOW OFF LM, EXPECT MOS LOWS FRI MORNING ARE TOO LOW EVERYWHERE EXCEPT PSBLY SWRN PORTION OF CWA. RIDGE WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA ON FRI, BRINGING AN END TO THE LAKE EFFECT SHOWERS, THOUGH WITH LIGHT NW FLOW AND AMPLE LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY/MOISTURE 12Z FRI SUSPECT SOME SHOWERS MAY PERSIST INTO THE MORNING HRS NW. SHRTWV SEEN ON WATER VAPOR MOVG INTO NRN BC COAST THIS AFTN SHOULD MOVE OVER WRN NA RIDGE AND DIVE SE INTO THE UPR MS VLY/GRTLKS THIS WEEKEND BRINGING A CHC OF SHOWERS TO THE AREA. DEEP TROF NEAR THE DATELINE TODAY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST TO WRN NA EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH WRN RIDGE WKNG AND MOVG EAST ACROSS OUR AREA RESULTING IN WARMING TREND HERE. SPLIT FLOW SHOULD DEVELOP BY MIDWEEK AS NRN PORTION OF TROF ACCELERATES EAST WITH CUTOFF LOWS OVER HUDSON BAY AND CA BY END OF THE PD. GFS/ECMWF IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN MOVG A WK CDFNT ASSOCIATED WITH NRN STREAM SHRTWV INTO OUR AREA TUE, PSBLY ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW SHOWERS/TSTMS. 00Z-06Z GFS AND 00Z ECMWF INDICATED THIS FRONT WOULD MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FAIRLY QUICKLY, WHILE 12Z GFS IS CONSIDERABLY WEAKER WITH SHRTWV AND HANGS FRONT UP OVER THE CWA SUGGESTING CHC OF SHOWERS LINGERING INTO WED. GIVEN STRENGTH OF SYSTEM OVER PACIFIC AND BETTER CONSENSUS OF EARLIER RUNS WILL GO WITH A DRY FCST FOR DAY7 ATTM. && .AVIATION... AREA OF PRE-FRONTAL SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. CDFNT EXPECTED TO MOVE THRU KSBN IN A FEW HOURS AND A FEW HOURS LATER AT KFWA. PRE-FRONTAL WINDS GUSTING TO ABOUT 30 MPH. A DECK OF 2000 FOOT STRATOCUMULUS IS FILLING IN BEHIND THE FRONT...SO CONTINUED THAT IDEA IN TAFS. COULD BE A FEW TSRA ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT SO LEFT VICINITY TSRA AT KFWA FOR A FEW HOURS. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR LMZ043-LMZ046. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...EDDY LONG TERM....TAYLOR
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 27, 5:58 AM EDT, 11 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 558 AM EDT WED SEP 27 2006 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-281000- 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 458 AM CDT WED SEP 27 2006 /558 AM EDT WED SEP 27 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY CONCERNS...MAINLY FOR NORTH CENTRAL TO NORTHEASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHWESTERN OHIO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-281000- 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- 558 AM EDT WED SEP 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. WAVES TODAY WILL BUILD TO 3 TO 5 FEET. WAVES TONIGHT WILL BE 3 TO 6 FEET. ALSO WINDS FROM NEW BUFFALO MI TO SAINT JOSEPH MI WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 KNOTS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TIL THURSDAY EVENING. WAVES THURSDAY WILL BE 5 TO 8 FEET AND THEN 4 TO 7 FEET THURSDAY NIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 27, 4:58 PM EDT, 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Wells | 52 min |
| Sep 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 53 min |
| Sep 27, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 28 min |
| Sep 27, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam | 43 min |
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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.