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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Northern Indiana

July 6, 2012Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2012, 4:19 PM EDT for Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 14 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2012, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2012, 4:33 PM EDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 6, 4:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 50	1 Nnw Huntington, IN
Jul 6, 4:20 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	1 Nnw Huntington, IN
Jul 6, 4:22 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 N Huntington, IN	TREE ACROSS 200W JUST SOUTH OF 600N.
Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Huntington, IN	A LARGE TREE FELL ONTO TWO HOUSES ON WEST PARK DRIVE NEAR DOWNTOWN HUNTINGTON CAUSING MODERATE DAMAGE TO ONE AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE OTHER. THE TREE APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN DAMAGED PREVIOUSLY FROM THE PREVIOUS DERECHO EVENT AND BROKE IN HALF WHERE IT WAS ALREADY

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

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

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

238 
WUUS53 KIWX 062019
SVRIWX
INC069-169-062045-
/O.NEW.KIWX.SV.W.0065.120706T2019Z-120706T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
419 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...
  EAST CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 414 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM   
  PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL 3 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF 
  HUNTINGTON...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS SEVERE 
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUNTINGTON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HUNTINGTON AND ANDREWS...AND RURAL EAST CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

&&

LAT...LON 4087 8550 4082 8556 4091 8571 4097 8568
      4099 8557 4095 8546
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 359DEG 6KT 4091 8552
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

199 
WWUS53 KIWX 062033
SVSIWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
433 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012

INC069-169-062040-
/O.CAN.KIWX.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-120706T2045Z/
WABASH IN-HUNTINGTON IN-
433 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL WABASH COUNTIES 
IS CANCELLED...

AT 427 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF 
EAST CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY. 

HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT 
FOR HUNTINGTON COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

&&

LAT...LON 4087 8550 4082 8556 4091 8571 4097 8568
      4099 8557 4095 8546
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 359DEG 6KT 4089 8552

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams	24 min
Jul 6, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, Kosciusko, Whitley	27 min
Jul 6, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash	26 min
Jul 6, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	24 min
Jul 6, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Huntington	3 hr
Jul 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami	47 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	31 min
Jul 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford	26 min
Jul 6, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Jay	25 min
Jul 6, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	27 min
Jul 6, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	32 min
Jul 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaGrange	2 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.