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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2010, 7:56 PM EDT for Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 14 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
- May 5, 2010, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2010, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 May 5, 7:30 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 7:30 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 543 PM EDT WED MAY 5 2010 INZ003>009-012>017-020-022-MIZ077>081-061100- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-WHITE-CASS IN-BERRIEN- CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE- 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...MONTICELLO... BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH... BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... COLDWATER...HILLSDALE 543 PM EDT WED MAY 5 2010 /443 PM CDT WED MAY 5 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE GREATEST THREAT. FROST IS LIKELY OVER MUCH OF THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ018-023>027-032>034-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025-061100- ALLEN IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY- WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT WAYNE...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...BRYAN... WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP... OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 543 PM EDT WED MAY 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY HAZARDS THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE GREATEST THREAT. FROST IS LIKELY OVER MUCH OF THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061100- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 543 PM EDT WED MAY 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. WIND GUSTS TO 40 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE IN STRONGER STORMS. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
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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 |
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| May 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb | 34 min |
| May 5, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Grant, Miami, Wabash | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wells | 43 min |
| May 5, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Grant, Huntington, Wells | 49 min |
| May 5, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 65 min |
| May 5, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 36 min |
| May 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Henry, Paulding | 25 min |
| May 5, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Henry | 36 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 5, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton, Williams | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.