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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2011, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Cass County, IN, Fulton County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Miami County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 7, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 244 PM EDT SAT MAY 7 2011 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-LMZ043-046-MIZ077>081-OHZ001- 002-004-005-015-016-024-025-081845- 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 244 PM EDT SAT MAY 7 2011 /144 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A KNOX TO PORTLAND LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY OR TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA... GENERALLY SOUTH OF A KNOX TO PORTLAND LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton, Grant, Miami, Starke, Wabash | 27 min |
| May 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford, Fulton, Huntington, Jay, LaPorte, Marshall and 2 more | 21 min |
| May 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 23 min |
| May 7, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | White | 24 min |
| May 7, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski, Starke | 56 min |
| May 7, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 28 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2011Every special weather statement 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.