Alert archive / Indiana / Winter Storm Warnings in 2011
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm warning at Jan 31, 2011, 2:36 PM EST for 21 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 31, 2011, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 34 hr. 48 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2011, 2:36 PM EST (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2011, 4:37 AM EST
- In force
- 34 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 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 9:44 PM EST | SNOW 1 | Van Wert, OH | 1 INCH SINCE 8PM. |
| Jan 31, 9:48 PM EST | SNOW 1.5 | Berne, IN | 1.5 INCHES OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. LIGHT MIX OF SNOW...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET CHANGED TO ALL SNOW AT 9PM. |
| Jan 31, 11:30 PM EST | SNOW 1.5 | Van Wert, OH | STORM TOTAL SO FAR. SNOW MIXED WITH SLEET. |
| Jan 31, 11:30 PM EST | SNOW 2 | Fort Wayne, IN | STORM TOTAL SO FAR. NE SIDE OF CITY. |
| Jan 31, 11:45 PM EST | SNOW 2.5 | Lima, OH | STORM TOTAL SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATION SO FAR. MEASUREMENT AT UNOH RADIO STATION. |
| Feb 1, 1:00 AM EST | SNOW 3.3 | Fort Wayne, IN | STORM TOTAL SO FAR. NE SIDE OF CITY. |
| Feb 1, 6:41 AM EST | SNOW 2 | Akron, IN | |
| Feb 1, 7:00 AM EST | SNOW 2.7 | Antwerp, OH | OVERNIGHT TOTAL |
| Feb 1, 7:00 AM EST | SNOW 3.5 | Napoleon, OH | OVERNIGHT TOTAL |
| Feb 1, 8:10 AM EST | SNOW 3.5 | Columbus Grove, OH | 3.5 INCHES OF SNOW FROM OVERNIGHT SNOWFALL. |
| Feb 1, 8:38 AM EST | SNOW 3.3 | Berne, IN | SNOWFALL OVER THE PAST 13 HOURS. SLEET AND FREEZING DRIZZLE MIXED IN AT TIMES. |
| Feb 1, 8:39 AM EST | SNOW 2 | Pleasant Lake, IN | OVERNIGHT SNOWFALL TOTAL |
| Feb 1, 8:45 AM EST | SNOW 3 | Paulding, OH | OVERNIGHT TOTAL |
| Feb 1, 8:50 AM EST | SNOW 2 | Marion, IN | OVERNIGHT SNOW TOTAL. SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN MIXED IN |
| Feb 1, 9:35 AM EST | SNOW 4 | W Columbus Grove, OH | OVER LAST 8 HOURS |
| Feb 1, 9:42 AM EST | SNOW 4 | Van Wert, OH | OVERNIGHT TOTAL. LIGHT GLAZE OF FREEZING RAIN THIS MORNING |
| Feb 1, 10:20 AM EST | SNOW 4.3 | Fort Wayne, IN | OVERNIGHT TOTAL FROM WANE. LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AS WELL THIS MORNING |
| Feb 1, 1:51 PM EST | SLEET 0.5 | Columbus Grove, OH | SLEET MIXED WITH SNOW IN PAST HALF HOUR. VISBY AT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE |
| Feb 1, 4:26 PM EST | SLEET 0 | Columbus Grove, OH | HEAVY SLEET NOW BEING REPORTED WITH VERY GUSTY WINDS. |
| Feb 1, 4:56 PM EST | SLEET 0 | Geneva, IN | HEAVY SLEET REPORTED AT THIS TIME. WINDS SUSTAINED AT 20 MPH AND GUSTING TO 30 MPH. |
| Feb 1, 5:04 PM EST | SLEET 3 | Marion, IN | HEAVY SLEET AT THIS TIME. TOTAL SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS INCLUDING LAST NIGHTS SNOW COMES TO 3.0 INCHES. |
| Feb 1, 6:34 PM EST | SNOW 3 | Fort Wayne, IN | 3.0 INCHES OF NEW SNOW IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. HEAVY SNOW HAS CHANGED TO MODERATE SLEET AND SNOW AT THIS TIME. |
| Feb 1, 6:41 PM EST | SNOW 4 | Akron, IN | 4.0 INCHES IS STORM SNOW TOTAL SO FAR. NOW GETTING A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN... SLEET... AND SNOW. WINDS SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 25 MPH. |
| Feb 1, 7:00 PM EST | BLIZZARD | 3 W Marion, IN | NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY WITH ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS JUST OVER 40 MPH. HEAVY DRIFTING OF SNOW AND SLEET...ESTIMATED 4-5 FEET ACROSS ROADS...WITH A SNOW-SLEET MIX CURRRENTLY FALLING. |
| Feb 1, 7:25 PM EST | SLEET 0.5 | Van Wert, OH | 0.5 INCH IS STORM TOTAL....MIX OF SNOW AND SLEET WITH MOST BEING SLEET. |
| Feb 1, 7:27 PM EST | SLEET 0 | Auburn, IN | SLEET AND SNOW BEING REPORTED AT THIS TIME. ROADS ARE DRIFTED WITH VERY POOR VISIBILITY. |
| Feb 1, 7:35 PM EST | SLEET 2 | Churubusco, IN | 2.0 INCHES OF NEW SLEET IN THE PAST HOUR. |
| Feb 1, 7:55 PM EST | SNOW 6.5 | 4 Nne Belmore, OH | TOTAL SNOWFALL SINCE LAST NIGHT IS 6.5 INCHES WITH 0.5 INCHES OF SLEET IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. MEASURED 30 MPH WINDS. |
| Feb 1, 8:02 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Plymouth, IN | SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING ACROSS THE COUNTY. ALL SECONDARY ROADS ARE CLOSED. VERY LOW VISIBILITIES. |
| Feb 1, 8:25 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Peru, IN | VISIBILITY IN OPEN AREAS IS NEAR ZERO. BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW BEING REPORTED. |
| Feb 1, 8:29 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Columbia City, IN | VISIBILITY LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING REPORTED ON US30. |
| Feb 1, 8:33 PM EST | BLIZZARD | 4 Nne Belmore, OH | ON STATE ROUTE 18 OUTSIDE OF DESHLER...BLOWING SNOW WITH 2 FOOT DRIFTS ACROSS THE ROADS. VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO. |
| Feb 1, 8:34 PM EST | SNOW 4 | 1 Sw Millersburg, IN | 3 INCHES SINCE THIS AFTERNOON...4 INCHES TOTAL SO FAR. 2 TO 3 FOOT DRIFTS. |
| Feb 1, 8:45 PM EST | SNOW 3.5 | Monroeville, IN | 3.5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL SINCE 10 AM EST. SNOW CURRENTLY FALLING. |
| Feb 1, 9:13 PM EST | BLIZZARD | 5 Sw Fort Wayne, IN | 54 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED AT KFWA WITH BLOWING SNOW AND VISIBILITY REDUCED TO LESS THAN QUARTER OF A MILE. |
| Feb 1, 9:15 PM EST | SNOW 4.5 | Lima, OH | STORM TOTAL SINCE LAST NIGHT IS 4.5 INCHES. HEAVY SLEET REPORTED NOW WITH 1.5 INCHES OF THE TOTAL BEING SLEET. |
| Feb 1, 9:23 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Leiters Ford, IN | 3 TO 3.5 FOOT DRIFTS...ZERO VISIBILITY...SNOW EMERGENCY IN PLACE |
| Feb 1, 9:27 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Logansport, IN | WHITEOUT CONDITIONS REPORTED WITH 4 TO 5 FOOT DRIFTS. ROADS ARE QUICKLY BECOMING IMPASSABLE. |
| Feb 1, 9:28 PM EST | HEAVY SNOW 12 | Leiters Ford, IN | STORM TOTAL ESTIMATED SO FAR...3-3.5 FOOT DRIFTS |
| Feb 1, 9:31 PM EST | SNOW 1.5 | Litchfield, MI | 1.5 INCHES IN THE PAST 5 HOURS. BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW REPORTED ACROSS THE ROADS. |
| Feb 1, 10:04 PM EST | SNOW 2.5 | Litchfield, MI | 2.5 INCHES OVER THE PAST 5.5 HOURS WITH 1 INCH IN THE PAST 30 MINUTES. SNOW IS BLOWING AND DRIFTING. WINDS REPORTED AT 35 MPH. |
| Feb 1, 10:11 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Columbia City, IN | THREE TO FOUR FOOT DRIFTS REPORTED ON US30 AND COUNTY ROADS. NUMEROUS VEHICLES STUCK INCLUDING 2 HWY SNOW PLOWS. POWER LINES DOWN FROM TREE LIMBS. |
| Feb 1, 10:14 PM EST | BLIZZARD | 5 Sw Fort Wayne, IN | 54 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED AT KFWA WITH BLOWING SNOW AND VISIBILITY REDUCED TO A QUARTER OF A MILE. |
| Feb 1, 10:29 PM EST | SNOW 4 | 2 N Granger, MI | 4.0 INCHES OF SNOW IN THE PAST 6 HOURS WITH 11 INCHES ON THE GROUND. |
| Feb 1, 10:38 PM EST | BLIZZARD | Knox, IN | NORTH PART OF COUNTY GETTING SNOW WITH SOUTHERN PORTIONS GETTING ALL SLEET. ROADS ARE SNOW COVERED WITH DRIFTS 3 TO 4 FEET. |
| Feb 1, 11:02 PM EST | SNOW 3.5 | Fort Wayne, IN | 3.5 INCHES OF NEW SNOW OVER THE PAST 4 HOURS. MEASURED 57 MPH WIND GUST. |
| Feb 1, 11:14 PM EST | SNOW 8 | Denver, IN | STORM TOTAL FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH 11PM TONIGHT. SNOW AND SLEET MIX BEING REPORTED. |
| Feb 2, 2:12 AM EST | SNOW 5.2 | Van Wert, OH | 5.2 INCHES IS STORM SNOW TOTAL...ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS NOT INCLUDED IN STORM TOTAL...0.1 INCH OF ICE AND 1.1 INCHES OF SLEET. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
528 WWUS43 KIWX 311936 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 236 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 ...POWERFUL WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION... .AN INTENSE WINTER STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA IN TWO PHASES BEGINNING TONIGHT AND ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING WITH A LULL TUESDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING WITH A MIX OF SLEET AND SNOW EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TONIGHT WILL BE GENERALLY 2 TO 5 INCHES...WITH LESSER AMOUNTS WHERE THE MIX OCCURS AND IN THE FAR NORTH. WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY TUESDAY WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ALTHOUGH THERE WILL LIKELY BE A LULL WITH THE FALLING SNOW TUESDAY MORNING AND EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. HEAVY SNOW WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING IS LIKELY BY LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. VERY HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...ENDING BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT. SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF ROUTE 24...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL LIKELY BE BETWEEN ONE QUARTER AND ONE HALF INCH...WITH HIGHEST ICING POTENTIAL NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 18 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF OVER 20 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. THESE HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS...WOULD SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS FAR NORTHWESTERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. VISIBILITIES COULD BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES POSSIBLE. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>009-012>016-020-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-010400- /O.UPG.KIWX.WS.A.0001.110201T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.WS.W.0001.110201T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB- STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... MONON...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON...HILLSDALE... LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON 236 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 /136 PM CST MON JAN 31 2011/ ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR A COMBINATION OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...SNOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT. AFTER A SHORT LULL IN THE SNOW TUESDAY MORNING...THE SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE TUESDAY. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING WITH THE FIRST DISTURBANCE...WITH THE HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED SOUTH OF INDIANA STATE ROAD 25. SOME SLEET COULD MIX IN AT TIMES WHICH WOULD ALSO REDUCE AMOUNTS SLIGHTLY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WOULD SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE...WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$ INZ017-018-022>027-032>034-OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-010400- /O.UPG.KIWX.WS.A.0001.110201T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.WS.W.0001.110201T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS- GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT- ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES... SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...LOGANSPORT... ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN... DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND...HARTFORD CITY... MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD... HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 236 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR A MIX OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...SNOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT. AFTER A SHORT LULL IN THE SNOW TUESDAY MORNING...THE SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE TUESDAY. SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IF PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET...MUCH LOWER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WOULD BE EXPECTED BUT SIGNIFICANT ICING WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH EXTENDED POWER OUTAGES. ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WOULD SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS WOULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$
7 follow-up statements
519 WWUS43 KIWX 010243 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 943 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 ...POWERFUL WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION... .AN INTENSE WINTER STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA IN TWO PHASES BEGINNING TONIGHT AND ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING WITH A LULL TUESDAY MORNING. SNOW ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING WILL MIX WITH SLEET...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A MONTICELLO TO ROCHESTER TO FORT WAYNE TO DEFIANCE LINE. FURTHER SOUTH A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET OVERNIGHT IS EXPECTED...MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TONIGHT WILL BE GENERALLY 2 TO 5 INCHES...WITH LESSER AMOUNTS WHERE THE WINTRY MIX OCCURS. WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY TUESDAY WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ALTHOUGH THERE WILL LIKELY BE A LULL WITH THE FALLING SNOW TUESDAY MORNING INTO EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. HEAVY SNOW WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING IS LIKELY BY LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. VERY HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...ENDING BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT. SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF ROUTE 24...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL LIKELY BE BETWEEN ONE QUARTER AND ONE HALF INCH...WITH HIGHEST ICING POTENTIAL NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 18 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF OVER 20 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. THESE HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWESTERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES POSSIBLE. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>009-012>016-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-011045- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB- STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE...NILES...BENTON HARBOR... ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER... BRONSON...HILLSDALE...LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN... MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON 943 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 /843 PM CST MON JAN 31 2011/ ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. AFTER A SHORT LULL IN THE SNOW TUESDAY MORNING...THE SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE TUESDAY. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING WITH THE FIRST DISTURBANCE...WITH THE HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED ALONG ROUTE 30...WEST OF WARSAW. SOME SLEET WILL MIX IN AT TIMES SOUTH OF ROUTE 30...WHICH WILL REDUCE AMOUNTS SLIGHTLY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE...WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$ INZ017-018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-011045- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS- ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT- ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES... SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... MONON...LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO... WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...DEFIANCE... SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER... PAULDING...ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA... FORT JENNINGS...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA... SPENCERVILLE 943 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...CHANGING TO ALL SNOW BY DAYBREAK. AFTER A SHORT LULL IN THE SNOW TUESDAY MORNING...THE SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE TUESDAY. SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IF PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET...MUCH LOWER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WOULD BE EXPECTED BUT SIGNIFICANT ICING WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH EXTENDED POWER OUTAGES. ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WOULD SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS WOULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$
101 WWUS43 KIWX 010951 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 451 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...POWERFUL WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT...SUPPORTING HEAVY SNOW AND MIXED PRECIPITATION INTO THE AREA. AFTER A LULL IN ACTIVITY THIS MORNING...HEAVY SNOW WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING IS LIKELY BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF THE AREA...POSSIBLY MIXING WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF US 24. VERY HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...ENDING BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT...WITH ISOLATED SNOW PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS BEING POSSIBLE. SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF ROUTE 24...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND ONE QUARTER INCH ARE POSSIBLE...WITH THE HIGHEST ICING POTENTIAL NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 18 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF OVER 20 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. THESE HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND FAR NORTHWEST OHIO. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES LIKELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>024-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 011800- /O.CAN.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.110201T1800Z-110203T0000Z/ 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-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH- HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES... SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... MONON...LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO... WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH... BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS... THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON... HILLSDALE...LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER... WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD... HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER 451 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /351 AM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... ...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...AFTER A SHORT LULL IN SNOW THIS MORNING...SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-011800- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 451 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...AFTER A SHORT LULL IN ACTIVITY THIS MORNING...SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IF PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET...MUCH LOWER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WOULD BE EXPECTED BUT SIGNIFICANT ICING WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH EXTENDED POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE. AROUND ONE QUARTER INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY AFFECTED AS ROADS WILL BE ICE COVERED...AND POSSIBLY DRIFTED OVER IN SOME LOCATIONS. PERSONS SHOULD ALSO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$ JC
824 WWUS43 KIWX 011006 CCA WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 505 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...POWERFUL WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT...SUPPORTING HEAVY SNOW AND MIXED PRECIPITATION INTO THE AREA. AFTER A LULL IN ACTIVITY THIS MORNING...HEAVY SNOW WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING IS LIKELY BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF THE AREA...POSSIBLY MIXING WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF US 24. VERY HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...ENDING BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT...WITH ISOLATED SNOW PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS BEING POSSIBLE. SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF ROUTE 24...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND ONE QUARTER INCH ARE POSSIBLE...WITH THE HIGHEST ICING POTENTIAL NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 18 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF OVER 20 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. THESE HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND FAR NORTHWEST OHIO. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES LIKELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>024-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 011830- /O.CAN.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.COR.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.110201T1800Z-110203T0000Z/ 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-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH- HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES... SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... MONON...LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO... WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH... BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS... THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON... HILLSDALE...LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER... WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD... HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER 505 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /405 AM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... ...THIS REPLACES THE WINTER STORM WARNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. THIS REPLACES THE WINTER STORM WARNING. * TIMING...AFTER A SHORT LULL IN SNOW THIS MORNING...SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-011830- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 505 AM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...AFTER A SHORT LULL IN ACTIVITY THIS MORNING...SNOW WILL EXPAND IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...ENDING WEDNESDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IF PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET...MUCH LOWER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WOULD BE EXPECTED BUT SIGNIFICANT ICING WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH EXTENDED POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE. AROUND ONE QUARTER INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY AFFECTED AS ROADS WILL BE ICE COVERED...AND POSSIBLY DRIFTED OVER IN SOME LOCATIONS. PERSONS SHOULD ALSO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$ JC
492 WWUS43 KIWX 011700 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1200 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION... .STRONG LOW PRESSURE ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LATE THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AS IT TRACKS INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND THEN TO NORTHERN OHIO BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. AREAS MAINLY SOUTH OF ROUTE 24 WILL EXPERIENCE PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE AND LIGHT FREEZING RAIN THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE EJECTS NORTHEAST OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...HEAVY SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL SEVERELY IMPACT THE AREA. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT... WITH ISOLATED SNOW PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS BEING POSSIBLE THAT COULD PRODUCE EVEN LOCALLY HIGHER SNOWFALL RATES. SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN SOUTH OF ROUTE 24...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND ONE QUARTER INCH TO ONE HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE...WITH THE HIGHEST ICING POTENTIAL NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 18 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM. THESE HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND FAR NORTHWEST OHIO. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES LIKELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ012>016-020-022>024-020100- /O.EXT.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.110201T2000Z-110203T0000Z/ STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI- WABASH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE... WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN... CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE... MENTONE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...MONON...LOGANSPORT... ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER 1200 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /1100 AM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM EST /2 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... THE BLIZZARD WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM EST /2 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...A LULL IN THE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. ALTHOUGH...SOME PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. SNOW IS EXPECTED TO EXPAND IN COVERAGE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE IN INTENSITY INTO THE EARLY EVENING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH THE GREATEST SNOWFALL RATES TONIGHT. SNOW AND WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOME SLEET IS ALSO EXPECTED TO MIX IN WITH THE SNOW. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN FAR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...EXTENDING INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ003>009-017-018-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-020100- /O.EXT.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.110201T2200Z-110203T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB- WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE- WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT... COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... NEW HAVEN...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON...HILLSDALE... LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE... NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER 1200 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /1100 AM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM EST /4 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... THE BLIZZARD WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM EST /4 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...A LULL IN THE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS. ALTHOUGH...SOME PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. SNOW IS EXPECTED TO EXPAND IN COVERAGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE IN INTENSITY EARLY THIS EVENING. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH THE GREATEST SNOWFALL RATES TONIGHT. SNOW AND WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOME SLEET MAY ALSO MIX IN WITH THE SNOW TONIGHT. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-020100- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 1200 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE OR LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET IS EXPECTED FOR A TIME EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW. PRECIPITATION MAY BE PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY WITH WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE LESSER SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO LINE WHERE MORE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE ANTICIPATED. ICE ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN ONE QUARTER INCH AND A HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE LOCATIONS. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF THIS MAGNITUDE MAY LEAD TO EXTENDED POWER OUTAGES. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY AFFECTED AS ROADS WILL BE ICE COVERED... AND POSSIBLY DRIFTED OVER IN SOME LOCATIONS. PERSONS SHOULD ALSO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$
133 WWUS43 KIWX 012223 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY... .STRONG LOW PRESSURE ACROSS WESTERN TENNESSEE WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AS IT TRACKS INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND THEN TO NORTHERN OHIO BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK NORTHEAST TONIGHT ALLOWING FOR PRECIPITATION TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY ACROSS THE AREA. A MIX OF HEAVY SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL SEVERELY IMPACT THE AREA TONIGHT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST LOCATIONS...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO LINE WHERE AROUND ONE HALF INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT... WITH ISOLATED SNOW PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS BEING POSSIBLE THAT COULD PRODUCE EVEN LOCALLY HIGHER SNOWFALL RATES. THE HEAVIEST SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA WHERE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 14 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS DUE TO LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS MAY PRODUCE SOME SLIGHTLY HIGHER STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FOR FAVORED LAKE EFFECT AREAS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS POTENTIALLY REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD TO NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND FAR NORTHWEST OHIO. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO AT TIMES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES LIKELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>005-MIZ077-078-020630- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-BERRIEN-CASS MI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /423 PM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... THE BLIZZARD WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...GRADUALLY TAPERING IN INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON. SNOW AND WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOME SLEET MAY ALSO MIX IN WITH THE SNOW ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN FAR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME LOCALIZED SLIGHTLY HIGHER STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO LINGERING LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ006>009-017-018-MIZ079>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-020630- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-ST. JOSEPH MI- BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA... ANGOLA...FREMONT...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN... GARRETT...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY... FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON... MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON...HILLSDALE...LITCHFIELD... JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE... SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER... LIBERTY CENTER 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... THE BLIZZARD WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. THE SNOW WILL LIKELY BE MIXED WITH SOME SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN THROUGH LATE TONIGHT WITH THE GREATEST POTENTIAL OF FREEZING RAIN ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 24 WHERE ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...GRADUALLY TAPERING IN INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. IN ADDITION...SOME ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING HOURS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ012>014-020630- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE... WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /423 PM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...GRADUALLY TAPERING IN INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON. SNOW AND WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOME SLEET MAY ALSO MIX IN WITH THE SNOW ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ015-016-020-022>024-020630- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... MONON...LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO... WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. THE SNOW WILL LIKELY BE MIXED WITH SOME SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN THROUGH LATE TONIGHT WITH THE GREATEST POTENTIAL OF FREEZING RAIN ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 24 WHERE SOME ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...GRADUALLY TAPERING IN INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 8 TO 16 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AT TIMES AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN MANY OPEN AREAS. IN ADDITION...SOME ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 24. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-020630- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 523 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...A MIX OF SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO MAINLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN FOR A TIME THIS EVENING BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO MAINLY SNOW LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION MAY BE PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY WITH WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...ICE ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH...WITH THE HEAVIEST ICE ACCUMULATIONS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE LESSER SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO LINE WHERE MORE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE ANTICIPATED. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL SUPPORT WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO FALL IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY AFFECTED AS ROADS WILL BE ICE COVERED... AND POSSIBLY DRIFTED OVER IN SOME LOCATIONS. PERSONS SHOULD ALSO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY ICE ACCUMULATIONS AND STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$
513 WWUS43 KIWX 020055 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 755 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS WINTER STORM AFFECTING THE REGION TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY... .STRONG LOW PRESSURE NEAR EVANSVILLE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST TO NEAR CLEVELAND BY DAYBREAK. A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS EASTERN MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK EAST NORTHEAST TONIGHT ALLOWING FOR PRECIPITATION TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY ACROSS THE AREA. A MIX OF HEAVY SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL SEVERELY IMPACT THE AREA TONIGHT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST LOCATIONS...GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LOGANSPORT TO OTTAWA LINE WHERE ONE QUARTER TO HALF INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN...WITH ISOLATED SNOW PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS STILL POSSIBLE THAT WOULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HIGHER SNOWFALL RATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. THE HEAVIEST SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA WHERE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 14 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS DUE TO LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS MAY PRODUCE SOME SLIGHTLY HIGHER STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FOR FAVORED LAKE EFFECT AREAS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WITH DRIFTS REACHING SEVERAL FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS. BLIZZARD OR NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND FAR NORTHWEST OHIO. VISIBILITIES WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO FOR MUCH OF TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. TRAVEL WILL IMPOSSIBLE IN MANY AREAS...WITH ROAD CLOSURES LIKELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS DANGEROUS WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN THE REGION. INZ003>005-012>014-MIZ077-078-020900- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-BERRIEN- CASS MI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN... NAPPANEE...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC... FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...CULVER...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... MARCELLUS 755 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 /655 PM CST TUE FEB 1 2011/ ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...HEAVY SNOW WITH SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL INTO EARLY MORNING BEFORE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT WILL TAPER FURTHER IN INTENSITY. WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SOME SLEET MAY MIX IN WITH THE SNOW THIS EVENING OUTSIDE THE HEAVIER BANDS. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH DAYBREAK. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME LOCALIZED SLIGHTLY HIGHER STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO LINGERING LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET ARE LIKELY IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ006>009-015>018-020-022>024-MIZ079>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 020900- /O.CON.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY- ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH- HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA... ANGOLA...FREMONT...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN... GARRETT...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE... MENTONE...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY... FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...MONON... LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO... WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON...HILLSDALE... LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE... NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER 755 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...HEAVY SNOW WITH SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL INTO EARLY MORNING BEFORE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BUT WILL TAPER FURTHER IN INTENSITY. WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SOME SLEET MAY MIX IN WITH THE SNOW THIS EVENING OUTSIDE THE HEAVIER BANDS. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH DAYBREAK. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS WEST OF STATE ROUTE 13. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AND SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING. SNOW DRIFTS OF 4 TO 8 FEET ARE LIKELY IN MANY OPEN AREAS. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CREATING VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. HIGHWAY CREWS WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING UP WITH THE CONDITIONS...LEADING TO SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES. UNNECESSARY TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO WET HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-020900- /O.CON.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 755 PM EST TUE FEB 1 2011 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...A MIX OF SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO MAINLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN FOR A TIME THIS EVENING BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO SNOW LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION MAY BE PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LOGANSPORT INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY WITH WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH ARE LIKELY...WITH HEAVIER ICE ACCUMULATIONS UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO. SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE LESSER SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A MARION INDIANA TO OTTAWA OHIO LINE WHERE MORE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE ANTICIPATED. * OTHER IMPACTS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...HIGHLY IMPACTING TRAVEL. THESE WINDS COULD MAY ALSO LEAD TO FALLEN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES IF SIGNIFICANT ICING OCCURS. TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY AFFECTED AS ROADS WILL BE ICE COVERED... AND DRIFTED OVER IN SOME LOCATIONS. PERSONS SHOULD ALSO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY ICE ACCUMULATIONS AND STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. && $$
731 WWUS43 KIWX 020937 WSWIWX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 437 AM EST WED FEB 2 2011 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT... .LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO EXIT THE REGION TODAY. LIGHT SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH MORNING...WITH AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW POSSIBLE THROUGH AFTERNOON. WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED FROM LAST EVENING...BUT AS THE SURFACE LOW EXITS THE REGION...COLD AIR WILL MOVE IN FROM THE WEST AND ALLOW WINDS TO INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH. THIS WILL SUPPORT BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN RURAL LOCATIONS. VISIBILITY MAY FALL TO ONE HALF MILE OR LESS AT TIMES IN BLOWING SNOW. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LIGHT...WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF US 24. FREEZING DRIZZLE IS EXPECTED TO END BY LATE MORNING...WITH ALL LINGERING PRECIPITATION TURNING TO SNOW. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL PUSH INTO PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER LA PORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES...LESSER AMOUNTS EAST. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE GIVEN THE NATURE OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW. ALTHOUGH CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED ACROSS THE AREA...MANY ROADS REMAIN TREACHEROUS AND IMPASSIBLE IN MANY LOCATIONS. PERSONS PLANING TRAVEL TODAY ARE HIGHLY ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. INZ003-004-012>014-MIZ077-021745- /O.CAN.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.WW.Y.0005.110202T0937Z-110203T0300Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-BERRIEN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH... BREMEN...CULVER...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN 437 AM EST WED FEB 2 2011 /337 AM CST WED FEB 2 2011/ ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... ...BLIZZARD WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. THE BLIZZARD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AFTERNOON...WITH FREEZING DRIZZLE ENDING THIS MORNING. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL DEVELOP AND PUSH INTO WESTERN LA PORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE TO SHIFT EAST THIS EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LINGERING SYSTEM SNOWS. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL SUPPORT REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM LAKE EFFECT SNOW...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE IN LA PORTE AND STARKE COUNTIES. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED DUE TO SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW. MANY ROADS REMAIN TREACHEROUS AND IMPASSIBLE FROM SNOW AND WIND LAST NIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...BLOWING SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO STRONG WINDS BLOWING SNOW AROUND. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. && $$ INZ005>009-015>018-020-022>024-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 021745- /O.CAN.KIWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.WW.Y.0005.110202T0937Z-110202T1800Z/ ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO- WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI- BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELKHART...GOSHEN...NAPPANEE... LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...ROCHESTER... AKRON...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...SYRACUSE...MENTONE... COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...MONON...LOGANSPORT... ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS... THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON... HILLSDALE...LITCHFIELD...JONESVILLE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER... WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...FAYETTE...SWANTON...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD... HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER 437 AM EST WED FEB 2 2011 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...BLIZZARD WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE BLIZZARD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AFTERNOON...WITH FREEZING DRIZZLE ENDING THIS MORNING. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM MID MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LINGERING SYSTEM SNOWS. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL SUPPORT REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED DUE TO SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW. MANY ROADS REMAIN TREACHEROUS AND IMPASSIBLE FROM SNOW LAST AND WIND LAST NIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...BLOWING SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO STRONG WINDS BLOWING SNOW AROUND. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. && $$ INZ025>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-021745- /O.CAN.KIWX.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110203T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.WW.Y.0005.110202T0937Z-110202T1800Z/ HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON... OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...PAULDING... ANTWERP...MELROSE...OTTAWA...PANDORA...KALIDA...FORT JENNINGS... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 437 AM EST WED FEB 2 2011 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AFTERNOON...WITH FREEZING DRIZZLE ENDING THIS MORNING. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM MID MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * MAIN IMPACT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 1 INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LINGERING SYSTEM SNOWS. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL SUPPORT REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. * OTHER IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE HIGHLY IMPACTED DUE TO SNOW...FREEZING DRIZZLE AND AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...BLOWING SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO STRONG WINDS BLOWING SNOW AROUND. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. && $$ JC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 31, 12:30 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 12:30 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1230 PM EST MON JAN 31 2011
.AVIATION.../18Z TAFS/
VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THIS AFTERNOON...WITH RAPIDLY
DETERIORATING FLIGHT CONDITIONS ANTICIPATED THIS EVE INTO THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. LEAD LOW AMPLITUDE SHORTWAVE OVER THE CENTRAL
PLAINS WILL PROPAGATE NEWD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT IN SW FLOW ALOFT.
BACKING LOW LEVEL FLOW AND INCREASING ISENTROPIC LIFT IN ADVANCE OF
THIS MID LEVEL WAVE WILL ALLOW FOR INCREASING LOW LVL CONVERGENCE
ALONG AN EXISTING BAROCLINIC ZONE. TOP DOWN SATURATION AND
EVENTUALLY LIGHT/MODERATE SNOW WILL BE THE RESULT...DEVELOPING
THIS EVENING AND THEN DIMINISHING AROUND DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY. A
PERIOD OF LIFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT IN FWA
CLOSER TO THE LOW LEVEL FRONT...WITH A POTENTIAL BURST OF
MODERATE/HEAVY SNOW GIVEN A POTENTIAL CONVECTIVE ELEMENT PER 12Z
GFS/NAM XSECTIONS.
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 458 AM EST MON JAN 31 2011/
..CRIPPLING WINTER STORM HEADED FOR THE AREA...
SHORT TERM...
ALL EYES FOCUSED INTENTLY ON POWERFUL SW TROUGH OVR SRN CA THIS
MORNING.
00Z GUIDANCE OFFERS SOME INTERESTING WRINKLES THIS MORNING. NAMELY
THE DIVERGENCE BTWN OP GFS/NAM SOLUTION WRT INTENSITY OF MID LVL AND
RESULTANT SFC REFLECTION HWVR ALL IMPORTANT TRACK PLACEMENT SIMILAR.
GREATER DISCONTINUITY LIES W/EFFECTS OF INTENSITY DIFFS AND MORE
IMPORTANTLY NWD EXTENT OF WARM NOSE PENETRATION TUE NIGHT. DECIDED
PREFERENCE THIS MORNING WAS FOR A BLENDED NAM/HIRES WRF SOLUTION
SIMILAR IN KIND TO ERN CAMP OF GEFS SPLIT AND WHICH FOLLOWS CLOSELY
W/CIPS ANALOGS. PRIMARY RESULT THEN BASED ON LL THERMAL FIELDS IS TO
SLIGHTLY CONTRACT MIXED PRECIP ZONE TUE NIGHT YET OTHERWISE HOLD
CLOSE W/PRIOR GRIDS. CERTAINLY A SIGNIFICANT ADIABATIC/DIABATIC
COOLING OFFSET XPCD TO OTHERWISE VRY INTENSE LL THERMAL ADVECTION
GIVEN INTENSITY OF DEEP LYRD LIFT THAT DVLPS IN ASSOCN/W DEEP AGEO
CIRCULATION UNDERNEATH IMPRESSIVE COUPLED JET. THIS IS FURTHER
CONFIRMED IN COBB AND VARIOUS BUKFIT DERIVED SNOW ALGORITHMS
INDICATING 1-2 IN PER HOUR SNOW RATES FM MID EVENING TUE THROUGH
DAYBREAK WED AND BACKED UP W/GARCIA TECHNIQUE MODIFIED FOR CONVN
WHICH LOCAL HIGHRES WRF INDICATES IN DERIVED REF DATA. THIS ALSO
YIELDS A SOMEWHAT SLWR EWD PROGRESSION WED MORNING BUT WHICH IS
ALREADY ACCOUNTED FOR IN PRIOR FCST GRIDS. PLUME ANALYSIS ON
BACKSIDE OF DEPARTING DEEP TROUGH IS VRY IMPRESSIVE YET APPEARS IT
WILL HOLD JUST WEST OF CWA PRIOR TO 00Z THU. AS FAR AS SNOW
ACCUMULATION GOES...GENERAL EXPECTATION IS FOR 12-15 INCHES FM TUE
AFTN THROUGH TUE NIGHT NW HALF QUICKLY TAPERING TO AROUND 6 INCHES
FAR SE FOLLOWED BY AN ADDNL 2-4 INCHES WED.
BIGGEST UNCERTAINTY GIVEN MIXED MODEL SIGNALS IS WHAT TO DO ABT
TONIGHT. 00Z SUITE ACRS THE BOARD HAD TRENDED STRONGER W/UPR JET
COUPLING BTWN DEPARTING JET STREAK OVR SE CANADA AND RAPIDLY
EMERGING JET STREAK LIFTING OUT OF W TX AHD OF EJECTING SWRN TROUGH
W/FAIRLY ROBUST QPF INVOF OF TIGHT LL BAROCLINIC ZONE. HWVR ALL LOOK
OVERDONE TO SOME DEGREE GIVEN DEEPENING ERLY FLW IN RESPONSE TO
RAPID E TX CYCLOGENESIS WHICH WILL CERTAINLY RETARD TOP DOWN
SATURATION GIVEN HIGH CNTRD SATURATED ASCENT. HWVR ONCE SATURATION
OCCURS SHLD BE PERIOD OF MOD SNOW ESP SRN CWA. HELD W/PRIOR
CONSERVATIVE IDEA OF A GENERAL 2-4 INCH SNOW YET ACKNOWLEDGE THE
HIGHER IMPLIED NOTION SEEN IN 00Z GUIDANCE.
PROPOSED CHG TO HEADLINES WAS TO UPGRADE NW HALF TO BLIZZARD WATCH
BEGINNING TUE EVENING THROUGH WED EVENING BUT SHOT DOWN DURING
COLLABORATION W/NRN NEIGHBORS. MOST MODEL DERIVED TRACK GUIDANCE
COINCIDENT W/GREATEST SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 12-18 INCHES AND IN
LIGHT OF EXISTING SNOWPACK POINT TO CRIPPLING IMPACTS TUE NIGHT/WED
AM DURING TIME OF HEAVIEST SNOWFALL AND STRONGEST SUSTAINED WINDS OF
20 TO 30 MPH AND HIGHER GUSTS.
LONG TERM...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
UNSETTLED NORTHWEST FLOW WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER IN THE
PERIOD...WITH CLIPPER TYPE SYSTEMS LIKELY IN THE PERIOD.
TIMING/INTENSITY OF THESE FEATURES ARE HIGHLY VARIABLE AT THIS
POINT...AND CERTAINLY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE RESOLVED UNTIL MUCH
LATER IN THE WEEK. ANOTHER MAJOR PLAYER IN THE FORECAST WILL BE THE
EVENTUAL EJECTION OF THE SW CONUS UPPER TROUGH AND ITS TRACK.
CURRENT MODELS/AND ENSEMBLE MEANS SUGGEST A SOUTHERN ROUTE...WITH
MINIMAL EFFECT ON THE REGION...BUT GIVEN THE MODERATING FLOW PER
ROCKIES DOWNSLOPE WARMING...A MORE NORTHERN BIAS IS CERTAINLY
POSSIBLE. GIVEN LARGE UNCERTAINLY IN FORECAST PER ACTIVE NW UPPER
FLOW...LITTLE TO NO CHANGE WAS MADE IN THE PERIOD...WITH MOST
CHANGE LIMITED TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH LAKE EFFECT SNOW EXPECTED.
WED-THUR...DEPARTING STRONG UPPER IMPULSE AND ASSOCIATED SFC WAVE WILL
SUPPORT BACKING LL FLOW N-NW-W. SYNOPTICALLY SUPPORTED MID LAKE BAND
WILL BE ONGOING WITH A RATHER QUICK SHIFT EAST PER BACKING LL FLOW.
THE BAND/S INTENSITY IS EXPECTED TO BE RATHER ROBUST AT FIRST GIVEN
MAJOR AXIS ORIENTATION WITH INVERSION BASES WELL ABOVE -13C WITH
EQUILIBRIUM HEIGHTS EVEN HIGHER IN THE PROFILE. NAM/GFS PROG RATHER
INTENSE H925-H85 OMEGA FIELDS SUPPORTING STRONG UVM. HENCE DO EXPECT
A PERIOD OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW IN FAR WESTERN LA PORTE AND
STARKE COUNTIES. HOWEVER...QUICK FLOW BREAKDOWN PER A HEAVY BACKING
PROFILE...WILL SUPPORT SHORT BAND RESIDENCE TIME GIVEN THE TRANSIENT
NATURE...WITH DIMINISHING INTENSITY AS THE LL FLOW IS INTERRUPTED AND
THE BAND FALLS APART. ATTM...1-3 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER THE
WESTERN PART OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES...WITH MUCH LIGHTER
AMOUNTS FARTHER EAST GIVEN CRASHING INVERSION BASES. SNOW WILL
HEAVILY WANE THURS MORNING...WITH ONLY LINGERING LAKE CLOUDS AND
FLURRIES EXPECTED BY THUR AFTERNOON ACROSS THE FAR NW. SFC RIDGING
WILL SUPPORT CLEAR SKIES ACROSS MOST OF THE FA. HOWEVER...CAA/A DEEP
SNOW PACK IN PLACE/AND A LOW SUN ANGLE WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR
T/S TO RECOVER MUCH.
FRI-SUN...NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THIS PERIOD AS ACTIVE NW FLOW WILL
LIKELY SUPPORT A CLIPPER SYSTEM IN THE GREAT LAKES WITH A STRENGTHENING
THERMAL INVERSION ALOFT PER WAA. DEEP SNOW PACK AND WEAK MIXING WILL
COUNTERACT WAA AT THE SFC...WITH COLD TEMPS EXPECTED...ALTHOUGH A
SLOW RISE IN HIGHS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY AS THE AIRMASS MODERATES.
RETAINED SNOW CHANCES FRI-SAT GIVEN CLIPPER SYSTEM POTENTIAL AND
POSSIBLE SW CONUS UPPER THROUGH INFLUENCE. RETAINED A COLD BIAS TO
MIN T/S GIVEN EXPECTED DEEP SNOW PACK. OPTED FOR MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES
IN THIS PERIOD GIVEN A STRENGTHENING THERMAL INVERSION WITH
SATURATION CERTAINLY POSSIBLE GIVEN TEMPS APPROACHING THE MELTING
POINT NEAR THE SFC IN THE DAY PERIODS. OVERALL....BELOW NORMAL TEMPS
ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE.
&&
.IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-
032>034.
MI...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 7 PM EST THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR MIZ077>081.
OH...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 7 PM EST THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025.
LM...GALE WATCH FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR
LMZ043-046.
&&
SHORT TERM...T
LONG TERM...JC
AVIATION...STEINWEDELHazardous weather outlook, Jan 31, 4:53 AM EST, 9 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 453 AM EST MON JAN 31 2011 INZ018-022>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-011000- ALLEN IN-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD- JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT WAYNE...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...PAULDING... ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 453 AM EST MON JAN 31 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW AND SLEET IS EXPECTED TONIGHT...WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG WINTER STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE REGION FROM LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY. HEAVY ACCUMULATING SNOW...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SIGNIFICANT ICING WILL BE POSSIBLE. DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WOULD BE EXPECTED WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW POSSIBLE. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SOME UNCERTAINTY STILL EXISTS REGARDING THE EXACT STORM TRACK AND INTENSITY. A SMALL SHIFT IN STORM TRACK WILL HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON WHERE THE HEAVIEST SNOW AND MOST DANGEROUS CONDITIONS WILL EXIST. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ003>009-012>017-020-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-011000- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-WHITE-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- 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...MONTICELLO... BROOKSTON...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER... HILLSDALE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE... NAPOLEON 453 AM EST MON JAN 31 2011 /353 AM CST MON JAN 31 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TONIGHT...WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED SOUTH OF INDIANA STATE ROAD 25. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG WINTER STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY. HEAVY ACCUMULATING SNOW AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM. DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WOULD BE EXPECTED WITH SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW POSSIBLE. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SOME UNCERTAINTY STILL EXISTS REGARDING THE EXACT STORM TRACK AND INTENSITY. A SMALL SHIFT IN STORM TRACK WILL HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON WHERE THE HEAVIEST SNOW AND MOST DANGEROUS CONDITIONS WILL EXIST. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-011000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 453 AM EST MON JAN 31 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY GALE CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE JC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 4:46 PM EST | Gale Warning | IWX | 47 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Indiana, 2011Winter Storm Warnings in Ohio, 2011Winter Storm Warnings in Michigan, 2011Every winter storm warning 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.