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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Northern Indiana

July 16, 2008Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2008, 7:59 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 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 16, 2008, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2008, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 973 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 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.