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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

March 15, 2012Defiance County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Mar 15, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT for Defiance County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 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, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2012, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

County Defiance County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2012-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2012-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

501 
WWUS83 KIWX 150607
SPSIWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
207 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012

OHZ004-015-150630-
DEFIANCE OH-PAULDING OH-
207 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD CENTRAL DEFIANCE AND NORTHERN
PAULDING COUNTIES...

AT 203 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF DEFIANCE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF HICKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL AND BRIEF 
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DEFIANCE...
  SHERWOOD...
  THE BEND...
  NEY...
  BRUNERSBURG...

LAT...LON 4142 8443 4127 8428 4115 8469 4126 8476
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 245DEG 22KT 4125 8461

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 5:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXKosciusko44 min
Mar 15, 5:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley64 min
Mar 15, 6:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXWells50 min
Mar 15, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski32 min
Mar 15, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski39 min
Mar 15, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXNoble23 min
Mar 15, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Pulaski46 min
Mar 15, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Starke54 min
Mar 15, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXMiami34 min
Mar 15, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski, Starke47 min
Mar 15, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXWabash43 min
Mar 15, 7:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWXPulaski, Starke6 hr
Mar 15, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSteuben47 min
Mar 15, 7:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPulaski28 min
Mar 14, 9:02 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Fulton, Williams61 hr
Mar 15, 1:33 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHenry42 min
Mar 15, 2:22 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Putnam53 min
Mar 15, 2:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Williams29 min
Mar 15, 3:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXFulton45 min
Mar 15, 7:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXVan Wert27 min
Mar 15, 7:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXVan Wert44 min
Mar 15, 8:14 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXPutnam46 min
Mar 15, 4:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXCass66 min
Mar 15, 5:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXSaint Joseph50 min
Mar 15, 5:27 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXSaint Joseph48 min
Mar 15, 6:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch, Hillsdale60 min
Mar 15, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch41 min
Mar 15, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch22 min
Mar 15, 6:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHillsdale32 min
Mar 15, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch27 min
Mar 15, 7:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch24 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.