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Lake Effect Snow Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana

November 19, 2008Cass County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this lake effect snow warning at Nov 19, 2008, 4:24 PM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It took effect at Nov 20, 2008, 3:40 AM EST. It was in force for 33 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 19, 2008, 4:24 PM EST (21:24 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 20, 2008, 3:40 AM EST
Expired: Nov 21, 2008, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 33 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Cass County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Nov 19, 3:44 PM EST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 19, 3:44 PM EST, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 19, 5:14 AM EST, 11 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 19, 4:01 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Watch	IWX	Elkhart, Marshall, Starke	24 hr
Nov 19, 4:39 AM EST	Gale Warning	IWX		53 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan, 2008 Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Indiana, 2008 Every lake effect snow warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.