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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 18, 2011Allen County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2011, 6:21 PM EDT for Allen County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 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
Jul 18, 2011, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2011, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

County Allen County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2011-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1057 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2011-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
1057 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

146 
WWUS83 KIWX 182221
SPSIWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
621 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2011

OHZ024-025-182245-
ALLEN OH-VAN WERT OH-
621 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTY 
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...

AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM NEAR SPENCERVILLE...OR 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DELPHOS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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...
  FORT SHAWNEE AND LIMA...
  ELIDA...
  NEEDMORE...
  CONANT...
  KEMP...
  HUME...

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.

LAT...LON 4065 8412 4065 8414 4065 8421 4069 8422
      4069 8433 4068 8434 4068 8444 4073 8444
      4073 8449 4082 8445 4080 8409
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 283DEG 22KT 4075 8435

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 3:59 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more16 hr
Jul 18, 8:07 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski, Starke38 min
Jul 18, 4:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPutnam30 min
Jul 18, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen31 min
Jul 18, 6:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen30 min
Jul 18, 7:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHenry, Williams24 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.