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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Northern Indiana

June 9, 2008Fulton County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 7:02 PM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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 9, 2008, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Fulton County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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
Jun 9, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 9, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
240 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

...SEVERE STORMS IMMINENT ALONG AND EAST OF A WABASH TO MONTPELIER
LINE...

.NEAR TERM...
STG INSTABILITY/HIGH SFC THETA-E AIRMASS AGAIN THIS AFTN EAST OF SFC
FNTL ZONE NOW BISECTING CWA...RUNNING FM MONTPELIER TO KOKOMO PER
SAT IMAGERY SHOWING WELL DEMARCATED LINE OF TCU. MCV AND ASSOCD MID
LVL SPEED MAX LIFTING NEWD OUT OF SRN IL WILL CONT TO SPARK NEW
CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT NEWD ALG SFC FNTL BNDRY. GREATER RISK WILL BE
W/ORGANIZING MULTICELLULAR CONVN LIFTING NEWD OUT OF EC IL AND
POTENTIAL FOR SHRT SEGMENTED BOW ECHO AND ENHANCED HIGH END WIND
DAMAGE THREAT. BEST GUESS WOULD BE ALG/E OF A LINE FM MARION TO
AUBURN TWD 4 PM.
&&

.SHORT TERM...

...THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT...

FOCUS ON UPSTREAM SW TROUGH OVR KS THIS AFTN AND SECONDARY SFC FNTL
WAVE OVR SRN PLAINS LIFTING NE INTO THE SRN LAKES OVERNIGHT. 12Z
NAM/WRF IDEAL PROG THIS AFTN ALTHOUGH AS IS TYPICAL A BIT SLOW
W/CONV DVLPMNT. ITS CONTS PRIOR SUGGESTION OF LIFTING SFC WAVE UP
THROUGH MIDDLE OF CWA OVERNIGHT W/RENEWED LLJ AND W/HIGH PWAT
AIRMASS IN PLACE SEE NO REASON TO BACK AWAY FM PRIOR HEAVY RAIN
MENTION ESP IN LIGHT OF OTHER GUIDANCE SHOWING SIMILAR RESULTS.
HWVR GIVEN MOST OF CWA HAS ESCAPED BULK OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE
LAST WEEK AND HIGH FFG WILL NOT GO W/FFA.

SHOWERS WILL LINGER A BIT INTO TUE AM BFR LIFTING OUT W/PARENT
TROUGH. FLW BACKS BY AFTN AND W/SOME INSOLATION NMM/ARW IDEA OF SCT
DVLPMNT IS CERTAINLY PLAUSIBLE BUT QUITE UNCERTAIN. WILL KEEP W/AT
LEAST SLIGHT CHC MENTION AT THIS POINT.
&&

.LONG TERM
MUCH CALMER LONG TERM IN STORE FOR THE REGION WITH ONE POTENTIALLY
SIGNIFICANT CONVECTIVE EVENT FRIDAY.

QUIET WEATHER WEDNESDAY AS MID LEVEL LOW OVER MT DRIFTS EAST ALONG
US-CN BORDER AS OCCLUDED SFC LOW ALSO MOVES ACROSS ONTARIO.  STRONG
WARM MOIST AIR RETURN AHEAD OF SFC FRONT INCREASES TEMPS/HUMIDITY
WED-THU. WARM MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON...BUT
WITH HEIGHTS RISING THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS SE CONUS RIDGING
HOLDS NWARD OVER AREA...STILL THINKING THERE WONT BE ANY SIGNIFICANT
CONVECTION DEVELOPING DURING PEAK HEATING OF THE AFTERNOON. BUT
SHOULD BE LOOKED AT AGAIN AS 12Z GFS RUN TRENDED TOWARDS MORE
CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY THAN PVS RUNS.

FRIDAY SFC BNDRY APPROACHES WHILE COOLER AIR MOVES IN ALOFT AS H5
TROUGH EDGES EAST. WITH PRESENT TIMING PLACING FRONT JUST TO OUR
WEST ALONG WITH FAVORABLE UPPER LVL WINDS/DIVERGENCE ON FRIDAY
AFTERNOON DEEP MOIST CONVECTION WOULD CERTAINLY BE SUPPORTED. KEPT
LINGERING CHANCES OF PCPN SATURDAY MORNING INTO AFTERNOON WITH COLD
AIR ALOFT ABOVE LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES AT THE SURFACE. GFS ENSEMBLE AND
EC ALL SUPPORT A DRY SATURDAY NIGHT WITH BNDRY WORKING FARTHER
EAST. THUS REMOVED POPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT WITH DRIER LOW LEVELS
AND WARMER ALOFT WORKING INTO THE REGION.  12Z GFS RUN BRINGS A
DISTURBANCE ROTATING AROUND THE MID LEVEL LOW OVER ONTARIO INTO THE
NORTH PORTION OF THE CWA ON SUNDAY. WILL WAIT TO SEE IF THIS FEATURE
IS REPRODUCED IN SUCCESSIVE RUNS BEFORE INTRODUCING POPS SO LATE IN
THE PERIOD.
&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDS XPCD THROUGH EVENING BFR DETERIORATING OVERNIGHT AS SFC
WAVE OVR THE SRN PLAINS LIFTS NEWD. SHLD SEE AN EXPANSIVE AREA OF
SHRA/TSRA OVERNIGHT AS LLJ CRANKS UP AGAIN. GIVEN DEGREE OF DEEP
MSTR IN PLACE...IFR CONDS LOOK PSBL YET WILL KEEP SOMEWHAT
OPTIMISTIC AT THIS POINT W/MVFR MENTION AND SEE HOW AFTN DVLPMNTS
SHAKE OUT...ESP UPSTREAM.
&&

.IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...NONE.
MI...NONE.
OH...NONE.
LM...NONE.
&&

NEAR TERM...HOLSTEN
SHORT TERM...HOLSTEN
LONG TERM...LUDINGTON
AVIATION...HOLSTEN

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
433 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-102045-
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
433 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 /333 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT ACROSS THE
AREA. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING. DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH IS THE MAIN THREAT. HAIL TO THREE- QUARTERS
OF AN INCH IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

IN ADDITION...RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY TONIGHT. STORM RUNOFF COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED
FLOODING OF STREETS... SMALL STREAMS AND BASEMENTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. IT REMAINS
TOO EARLY TO ASCERTAIN THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS...RAINFALL REPORTS OF OVER
ONE INCH PER HOUR RATES OR TOTALS GREATER THAN 1.50 INCHES ARE
APPRECIATED.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-102045-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
433 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE INTO TONIGHT ACROSS THE
AREA. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 KNOTS WITH
LOCALIZED HIGH WAVES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:30 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
630 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0630 PM     FLASH FLOOD      FORT WAYNE              41.07N  85.14W
06/09/2008                   ALLEN              IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WATER UP TO THE BUMPER OF A CAR ON ST JOE ROAD NEAR
            WASHINGTON CENTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER 01438

LMK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:51 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
651 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 E GLENMORE            40.78N  84.66W
06/09/2008  M99 MPH          VAN WERT           OH   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

EVENT NUMBER 01440

LMK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:54 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
654 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0653 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     HAMILTON                41.53N  84.92W
06/09/2008                   DE KALB            IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MULTIPLE FUNNEL CLOUDS

&&

EVENT NUMBER 01441

LMK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:55 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
655 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0640 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BERNE                   40.66N  84.95W
06/09/2008                   ADAMS              IN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE EAST OF HIGHWAY 27 FROM BERNE
            SOUTH TO GENEVA

&&

EVENT NUMBER 01442

LMK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:56 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
656 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0638 PM     HAIL             COLUMBUS GROVE          40.92N  84.06W
06/09/2008  M0.25 INCH       PUTNAM             OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            30 SECONDS DURATION

&&

EVENT NUMBER 01443

LMK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	44 min
Jun 9, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Jay	67 min
Jun 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Noble	45 min
Jun 9, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Steuben	35 min
Jun 9, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Paulding	24 min
Jun 9, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam, Van Wert	57 min
Jun 9, 6:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Van Wert	29 min
Jun 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	26 min
Jun 9, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	48 min
Jun 9, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	29 min
Jun 9, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Williams	56 min
Jun 9, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Henry	20 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.