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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Mar 15, 2012, 1:33 AM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2012, 1:33 AM EDT (05:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Henry County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 14, 7:47 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 7:47 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 15, 12:01 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1201 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-160415- 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 1201 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 /1101 PM CDT WED MAR 14 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-160415- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 1201 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. FOG MAY DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. THE FOG MAY BE DENSE ON THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 1:33 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 133 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 OHZ001-002-004-005-150615- DEFIANCE OH-FULTON OH-HENRY OH-WILLIAMS OH- 133 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN FULTON...SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMS...NORTHEASTERN DEFIANCE AND NORTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTIES... AT 128 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF ARCHBOLD...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ARCHBOLD AND RIDGEVILLE CORNERS... PETTISVILLE AND GERALD... LAT...LON 4159 8426 4150 8400 4128 8440 4135 8450 TIME...MOT...LOC 0531Z 227DEG 28KT 4138 8436
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 5:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 5:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley | 64 min |
| Mar 15, 6:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wells | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 54 min |
| Mar 15, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Miami | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 7:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 9:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Williams | 61 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Defiance | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 2:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Putnam | 53 min |
| Mar 15, 2:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Williams | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 3:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 7:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Wert | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 7:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Wert | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 8:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Putnam | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 4:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 5:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 5:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 6:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 22 min |
| Mar 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Hillsdale | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 24 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.