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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2008, 6:47 PM EDT for LaGrange County, Indiana; Branch County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 13, 2008, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties LaGrange County, IN, Branch County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 Sep 13, 3:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 4:47 AM EDT, 14 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 447 AM EDT SAT SEP 13 2008 INZ004>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-140900- 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-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...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...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 447 AM EDT SAT SEP 13 2008 /347 AM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OR EVEN A BRIEF TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON SUNDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY SOUTH OF U.S. ROUTE 6. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED AGAIN SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING. RAINFALL TOTALS AROUND 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY EARLY MONDAY WITH HEAVIEST AMOUNTS NORTH OF A PERU TO ANGOLA LINE. LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY BE FLOODED...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME RIVER FLOODING DEVELOPING ON OR BEYOND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ003-LMZ043-046-MIZ077-140900- LA PORTE-NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI- MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-BERRIEN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN 447 AM EDT SAT SEP 13 2008 /347 AM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OR EVEN A BRIEF TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THERE IS ALSO AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON SUNDAY. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED AGAIN SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING. RAINFALL TOTALS AROUND 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY EARLY MONDAY. LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY BE FLOODED...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME RIVER FLOODING DEVELOPING ON OR BEYOND MONDAY. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 6:08 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 4:22 AM EDT | Lakeshore Flood Statement | IWX | 21 hr | |
| Sep 13, 5:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 8:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Saint Joseph | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 11:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:30 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 17 days |
| Sep 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 28 min |
| Sep 13, 7:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Berrien, Cass | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2008Severe 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.