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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2010, 1:20 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Steuben County, Indiana; Fulton County, Henry County, Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2010, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties DeKalb County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 23, 12:21 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 12:21 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 5:48 AM EDT, 7 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 548 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-241000- 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 548 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 /448 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY NORTH OF ROUTE 30 THIS MORNING...THEN THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WIND EVENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT HEAT INDEX READINGS OF 93 TO 98 DEGREES AT MOST PLACES TODAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF ROUTE 30. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. WHILE MANY UNCERTAINTY STILL EXISTS...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-241000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 548 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. WINDS GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 34 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL AS WATERSPOUTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. WHILE MANY UNCERTAINTY STILL EXISTS...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE JC
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 11:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 23, 11:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1109 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1050 AM MARINE TSTM WIND 2 NNW MICHIGAN CITY 41.74N 86.91W
06/23/2010 M45 MPH LMZ046 IN C-MAN STATION
39 KNOT GUST RECORDED AT THE GLERL SITE AT MICHIGAN
CITY
&&
EVENT NUMBER IWX1000804
FISHERSpecial weather statement, Jun 23, 11:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1125 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 INZ004-005-MIZ077>079-231600- BERRIEN MI-CASS MI-ELKHART IN-ST. JOSEPH MI-ST. JOSEPH IN- 1125 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 AT 1120 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN...OR NEAR BUCHANAN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... DOWAGIAC AND GRANGER... DOWAGIAC... EDWARDSBURG... CASSOPOLIS... MARCELLUS... CONSTANTINE AND WHITE PIGEON... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO. LAT...LON 4205 8565 4178 8563 4172 8625 4199 8624 TIME...MOT...LOC 1525Z 262DEG 49KT 4186 8623 MCS
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1139 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
OHZ001-002-231630-
FULTON OH-WILLIAMS OH-
1139 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
AT 1134 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PIONEER...OR NEAR MONTPELIER...MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ARCHBOLD...
WAUSEON...
SWANTON...
FAYETTE...
DELTA...
ALVORDTON...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND
NORTHWEST OHIO.
LAT...LON 4148 8394 4153 8458 4168 8461 4172 8410
4172 8387 4149 8387
TIME...MOT...LOC 1539Z 267DEG 38KT 4161 8448
MCSSpecial weather statement, Jun 23, 11:41 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1141 AM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
INZ003-004-012-014-231615-
LA PORTE IN-MARSHALL IN-ST. JOSEPH IN-STARKE IN-
1041 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2010
AT 1038 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM TRAIL CREEK TO
WANATAH TO 10 MILES WEST OF LA CROSSE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND OCCASIONAL
LIGHTNING...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
LA PORTE...
KNOX...
SOUTH BEND...
GULIVOIRE PARK...
LA CROSSE...
KINGSFORD HEIGHTS...
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/300 PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/ FOR NORTHERN
INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO.
LAT...LON 4172 8690 4174 8612 4147 8626 4122 8645
4125 8694 4162 8695
TIME...MOT...LOC 1541Z 268DEG 45KT 4164 8681 4146 8691
4128 8704Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:54 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1254 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
INZ016-017-024-025-231730-
HUNTINGTON IN-KOSCIUSKO IN-WABASH IN-WHITLEY IN-
1254 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010
AT 1252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
NORTH MANCHESTER...
COLUMBIA CITY...
SOUTH WHITLEY...
PACKERTON...
LIBERTY MILLS AND SIDNEY...
COLLAMER...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND
NORTHWEST OHIO.
LAT...LON 4096 8595 4105 8595 4105 8596 4115 8597
4119 8545 4095 8545
TIME...MOT...LOC 1654Z 264DEG 33KT 4105 8587
MCSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:55 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 19 hr | |
| Jun 23, 7:58 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 23, 9:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more | 18 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 10:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 10:45 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 45 min | |
| Jun 23, 11:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 102 min | |
| Jun 23, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 11:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton, Williams | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 8:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Berrien | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 9:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Saint Joseph | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 10:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 11:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 35 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.