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Lake Effect Snow Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this lake effect snow warning at Feb 3, 2009, 12:59 PM EST for Pulaski County, Starke County, Indiana. It took effect at Feb 3, 2009, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2009, 12:59 PM EST (17:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2009, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2009, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Feb 3, 6:35 AM EST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 6:35 AM EST, 6 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 3, 5:04 AM EST, 7 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 504 AM EST TUE FEB 3 2009 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-LMZ043-046-MIZ077>081-OHZ001- 002-004-005-015-016-024-025-041015- 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- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 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 504 AM EST TUE FEB 3 2009 /404 AM CST TUE FEB 3 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ANOTHER ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIND CHILLS BY LATE TONIGHT WILL FALL TO 10 TO 15 BELOW OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA...WITH THE HEAVIEST SNOW EXPECTED TO BEGIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF LAPORTE...STARKE...AND BERRIEN COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY BITTER COLD AIR WILL MAINTAIN ITS GRIP ON THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SUB ZERO WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING TO NEAR ZERO AND WIND CHILLS AGAIN REACHING 10 TO 15 BELOW BY THURSDAY MORNING. HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW IS POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF LAPORTE...STARKE...AND BERRIEN COUNTIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED...HOWEVER REPORTS OF SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE REQUESTED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 12:59 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | IWX | Starke | 3 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Indiana, 2009Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan, 2009Every lake effect snow warning in 2009
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.