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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 23, 2011Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2011, 12:39 AM EDT for Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 66 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 23, 2011, 12:39 AM EDT (04:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2011, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

Counties Noble County, IN, Whitley County, IN

The radar

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 296 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

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

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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.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 22, 10:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 10:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 11:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 10:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1056 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2011

INZ003-012>015-230345-
FULTON IN-LA PORTE IN-MARSHALL IN-PULASKI IN-STARKE IN-
956 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD MARSHALL...EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN
ST. JOSEPH AND NORTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL
INDIANA...AND NORTHERN PULASKI...SOUTHERN LA PORTE AND STARKE
COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...

AT 953 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KNOX...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 35 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  PLYMOUTH...
  ROCHESTER...
  CULVER...
  ARGOS...
  DONALDSON...BURR OAK AND DELONG...
  HIBBARD...TYNER AND MAXINKUCKEE...

GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS 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 4142 8694 4145 8652 4143 8652 4143 8647
      4146 8646 4148 8617 4105 8617 4112 8694
TIME...MOT...LOC 0256Z 266DEG 24KT 4132 8652

CEO

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 11:39 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 12:15 AM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 12:39 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Starke	37 min
Jul 22, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall, Starke	49 min
Jul 22, 11:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	53 min
Jul 22, 11:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	51 min
Jul 23, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	45 min
Jul 23, 12:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	21 min
Jul 23, 2:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		112 min
Jul 23, 9:39 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	IWX		7 hr
Jul 23, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	White	40 min
Jul 23, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	27 min
Jul 23, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Pulaski	47 min
Jul 23, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Whitley	37 min
Jul 23, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	44 min
Jul 23, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	51 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	49 min
Jul 23, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange	45 min
Jul 23, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Noble	49 min
Jul 23, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	31 min
Jul 23, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall	29 min
Jul 23, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, Saint Joseph	119 min
Jul 23, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Pulaski	33 min
Jul 23, 7:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	112 min
Jul 23, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Putnam	45 min
Jul 23, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Williams	52 min
Jul 23, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Williams	27 min
Jul 23, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	50 min
Jul 23, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Saint Joseph	40 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.