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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this wind advisory at Dec 29, 2008, 10:25 AM EST for Fulton County, Williams County, Ohio; Elkhart County, LaGrange County, Steuben County, Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 29, 2008, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2008, 10:25 AM EST (15:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 29, 2008, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2008, 6:08 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Elkhart County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Fulton County, OH, Williams County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KIWX 291525 NPWIWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1025 AM EST MON DEC 29 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... INZ003>007-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-292330- /O.NEW.KIWX.WI.Y.0013.081229T1800Z-081230T0300Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC... CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE... BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD 1025 AM EST MON DEC 29 2008 /925 AM CST MON DEC 29 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KIWX 292308 NPWIWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 608 PM EST MON DEC 29 2008 INZ003>007-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-300015- /O.CAN.KIWX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-081230T0300Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC... CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE... BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD 608 PM EST MON DEC 29 2008 /508 PM CST MON DEC 29 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGH THE EVENING. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE FOR A FEW HOURS. HOWEVER...THIS WILL BE WELL BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 10:58 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 6 hr | |
| Dec 29, 4:46 AM EST | Gale Warning | IWX | 18 hr | |
| Dec 29, 9:16 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 3 days |
Nearby
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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.