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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm watch at Feb 23, 2011, 3:57 PM EST for 21 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Feb 24, 2011, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2011, 3:57 PM EST (20:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2011, 11:56 AM EST
- In force
- 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 21:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 watch went out at Feb 23, 12:41 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 12:41 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 23, 5:59 AM EST, 9 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 559 AM EST WED FEB 23 2011 LMZ043-046-241100- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 559 AM EST WED FEB 23 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE EXPECTED FROM THURSDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-241100- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN- MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN- CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE- HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 559 AM EST WED FEB 23 2011 /459 AM CST WED FEB 23 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME FREEZING RAIN IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT...BUT THERE IS A POTENTIAL OF SOME SLICK SPOTS DEVELOPING ON ROADWAYS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A STRONG WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO TAKE SHAPE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE TONIGHT AND LIFT NORTHEAST THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY LATE THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME...SIGNIFICANT SNOW APPEARS LIKELY WITH THIS SYSTEM INCLUDING A CHANCE FOR SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IN SOME AREAS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. EARLY INDICATIONS SUGGEST SNOWFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A ROCHESTER TO NAPOLEON LINE. SOME ICE ACCUMULATION IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF THIS LINE. IN ADDITION...NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME GUSTY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING RESULTING IN AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. THIS STORM SYSTEM WAS OFFSHORE THE BAJA OF CALIFORNIA COAST...AND ADDITIONAL FLUCTUATIONS IN TRACK AND INTENSITY CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON PRECIPITATION TYPE AND AMOUNTS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS CONCERNING THIS STORM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM SYSTEM MAY BRING A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION LATE THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. MUCH UNCERTAINTY REMAINS REGARDING THE TRACK AND STRENGTH OF THIS STORM...AND FUTURE FORECASTS SHOULD BE MONITORED CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Indiana, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Ohio, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Michigan, 2011Every winter storm watch in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.