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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2008, 12:14 PM EDT for Fulton County, Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2008, 12:14 PM EDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fulton County, IN, Miami County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 11:31 AM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 11:31 AM EDT, 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 503 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2008 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-LMZ043-046-MIZ077>081-OHZ001- 002-004-005-015-016-024-025-271000- 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- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 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 503 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2008 /403 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAPORTE TO FORT WAYNE...HOWEVER THEY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PARTICULARLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30 AFTER 4 PM WITH A THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE A GOOD BET FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AND AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A MARION TO MONTPELIER LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:26 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | DeKalb, Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Miami and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Jay | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 30 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2008Every severe thunderstorm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.