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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Northern Indiana

July 16, 201121 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this heat advisory at Jul 16, 2011, 3:51 PM EDT for 21 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jul 17, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2011, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 17, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jul 17, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
All 33 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2011-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2011-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:51 PM EDTExcessive Heat WatchIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more66 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Indiana, 2011Heat Advisories in Ohio, 2011Heat Advisories in Michigan, 2011Every heat advisory in 2011

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.