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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 3:39 PM EDT for Allen County, Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 8, 2008, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 4:08 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Allen County, OH, Putnam County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Jul 8, 3:29 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:29 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 445 AM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-090845- 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 EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 /345 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. AT THIS TIME...THE PRIMARY THREAT REMAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE POTENTIAL DOES EXIST FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MOST LIKELY FORM OF SEVERE WEATHER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LOGANSPORT INDIANA TO WAUSEON OHIO LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REPORTS OF FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-090845- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 445 AM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. AT THIS TIME...THE PRIMARY THREAT REMAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE POTENTIAL DOES EXIST FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MOST LIKELY FORM OF SEVERE WEATHER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS. && 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:09 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 96 min | |
| Jul 8, 12:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells and 1 more | 114 min |
| Jul 8, 12:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 1:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry, Putnam | 56 min |
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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.