Alert archive / Indiana / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2008
Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 8, 2008, 1:02 PM EST for 19 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2008, 1:02 PM EST (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
All 31 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 12:26 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 12:26 PM EST, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 8, 4:58 AM EST, 8 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 458 AM EST MON DEC 8 2008 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-091000- 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 EST MON DEC 8 2008 /358 AM CST MON DEC 8 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW OR SLEET THIS AFTERNOON...BUT LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR FREEZING RAIN THIS EVENING...MAINLY NORTH OF U.S. ROUTE 30. ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SMALL...BUT ROADS AND SIDEWALKS COULD BECOME SLICK BEFORE TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY RAIN IS EXPECTED TUESDAY AND IT COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS COULD APPROACH ONE INCH BY TUESDAY EVENING. THIS RAINFALL COUPLED WITH MELTING SNOW COULD CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING... ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN WHERE A DEEPER SNOWPACK EXISTS. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO SNOW TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN DUE TO LAKE EFFECT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOWFALL AND RAINFALL REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-091000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 458 AM EST MON DEC 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A GALE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT ARE LIKELY AT TIMES BEYOND WEDNESDAY MORNING AS WELL. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 8, 11:26 AM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1126 AM EST MON DEC 8 2008 INZ013-015-020-022>026-032>034-081730- BLACKFORD IN-CASS IN-FULTON IN-GRANT IN-HUNTINGTON IN-JAY IN-MIAMI IN-PULASKI IN-WABASH IN-WELLS IN-WHITE IN- 1126 AM EST MON DEC 8 2008 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... AT 1124 AM EST/1024 AM CST/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF LIGHT SLEET... POSSIBLY MIXED WITH PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING RAIN...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 31 MILES WEST OF MEDARYVILLE TO 26 MILES SOUTH OF REDKEY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE LIGHT SLEET AND PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING RAIN COULD CAUSE SOME SLICK SPOTS ON AREA ROADS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS PRECIPITATION INCLUDE... LOGANSPORT... GRISSOM AFB AND FAIRMOUNT... MARION...AND UPLAND... WALTON AND FRANCESVILLE... SWAYZEE... ROYAL CENTER AND PERU... MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING. ROADWAYS CAN BECOME SLIPPERY QUICKLY...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 4:32 AM EST | Gale Watch | IWX | 11 hr | |
| Dec 8, 3:50 PM EST | Gale Warning | IWX | 37 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in Indiana, 2008Freezing Rain Advisories in Ohio, 2008Freezing Rain Advisories in Michigan, 2008Every freezing rain 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.