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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 18, 2011Henry County, Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2011, 8:04 PM EDT for Henry County, Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

Counties Henry County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

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The text

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 8:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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

OHZ001-002-004-005-190030-
DEFIANCE OH-FULTON OH-HENRY OH-WILLIAMS OH-
804 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH
SOUTHWESTERN FULTON...EASTERN WILLIAMS...NORTHEASTERN DEFIANCE AND
HENRY COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

AT 756 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WEST UNITY TO
NAPOLEON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH RAINFALL
OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  NAPOLEON...ARCHBOLD AND MALINTA...

STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES.

SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 4117 8392 4153 8461 4169 8452 4138 8388
      4117 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 304DEG 9KT 4157 8446 4138 8412

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 1:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	23 min
Jul 19, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble	34 min
Jul 19, 2:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	44 min
Jul 19, 3:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash	26 min
Jul 19, 4:06 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	5 hr
Jul 19, 9:23 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	5 days
Jul 19, 12:35 PM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	IWX		9 hr
Jul 18, 8:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Henry	115 min
Jul 18, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Henry	23 min
Jul 19, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass	38 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2011 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.