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Freezing Rain Advisory 7, NWS Northern Indiana

December 8, 200712 counties in Indiana; 5 counties in Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 8, 2007, 4:24 AM EST for 12 counties in Indiana; 5 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Dec 8, 2007, 8:36 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 8, 2007, 4:24 AM EST (09:24 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 8, 2007, 8:36 PM EST
Expired
Dec 9, 2007, 4:32 AM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

Counties Adams County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Miami County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Allen County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 00:00Z on 2007-12-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-12-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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 freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 8, 12:49 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 12:49 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 8, 4:24 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchIWXAllen, DeKalb, Elkhart, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble and 3 more18 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Indiana, 2007Freezing Rain Advisories in Ohio, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007

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.