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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2007, 5:44 PM EDT for Kosciusko County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 61 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 1, 2007, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2007, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kosciusko County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 012144 SVRIWX INC085-183-012245- /O.NEW.KIWX.SV.W.0021.070501T2144Z-070501T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 544 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 541 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEAVER DAM LAKE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARSAW...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... PACKERTON... SIDNEY... COLLAMER... SOUTH WHITLEY... TUNKER... PEABODY...WASHINGTON CENTER AND COLUMBIA CITY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH... PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH....ALONG WITH DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4118 8600 4103 8603 4099 8536 4116 8535 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| May 1, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Steuben | 42 min |
| May 1, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 34 min |
| May 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Noble, Whitley | 36 min |
| May 1, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 44 min |
| May 1, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 22 min |
| May 1, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 63 min |
| May 1, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 6 hr |
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.