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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this areal flood advisory at Dec 19, 2008, 9:07 AM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2008, 9:07 AM EST (14:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Allen County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 905 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 974 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood advisory went out at Dec 19, 6:52 AM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 6:52 AM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 19, 4:45 AM EST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 445 AM EST FRI DEC 19 2008 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-201000- 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 445 AM EST FRI DEC 19 2008 /345 AM CST FRI DEC 19 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. MAJOR WINTER STORM WITH HEAVY SNOW AND SIGNIFICANT ICING THIS MORNING... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN INTENSE WINTER STORM OVER MISSOURI THIS MORNING WILL RACE EASTWARD INTO EASTERN OHIO BY THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL DIMINISH TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON. GENERALLY 4 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED NORTH OF THE INDIANA/MICHIGAN STATE LINE...AND HEAVY ICING SOUTH WITH ICE ACCRUAL OF ONE QUARTER TO 1 INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH A BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR FOLLOWING IN BEHIND. BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND STRONG WINDS SUNDAY AFTERNOON WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 15 TO 25 BELOW ZERO. IN ADDITION...NUMEROUS LAKE ENHANCED SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED WITH MINOR ACCUMULATIONS. STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO LEAD TO ADDITIONAL POWER OUTAGES AS ICE DAMAGED AND OR WEAKENED TREE LIMBS WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO COMING DOWN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. HOWEVER SNOW SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGE TO CALL IN SNOW AND OR ICE REPORTS TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-201000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 445 AM EST FRI DEC 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS AFTERNOON AS INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SHIFTS THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY...WITH HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TO SMALL CRAFT CONTINUING TIL EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR WILL ARRIVE ON SUNDAY WITH GALE FORCE WINDS DEVELOPING. VERY COLD TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH LARGE WAVES WILL LEAD TO HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
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Areal Flood Advisories in Indiana, 2008Every areal flood advisory in 2008
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.