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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2012, 5:54 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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
- May 20, 2012, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County LaPorte County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 May 20, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 20, 4:03 AM CDT, 13 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 503 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>080-210915- 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- 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 503 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 /403 AM CDT SUN MAY 20 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. .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 MIZ081-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025-210915- HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT- ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 503 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. .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 LMZ043-046-210915- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 503 AM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WINDS AND WAVES MAY BE LOCALLY HIGH IN AND NEAR STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY BECOME HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL CRAFT MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON. && 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, May 20, 4:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 543 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 INZ003-012-013-202245- LA PORTE-STARKE-PULASKI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE 543 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 /443 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2012/ ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT NORTHWESTERN INDIANA INTO EARLY THIS EVENING... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWESTERN INDIANA. LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A FRANCESVILLE TO FISH LAKE LINE WILL SEE THE BEST CHANCE OF SEEING A THUNDERSTORM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. INZ023-024-202245- MIAMI-WABASH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER 543 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN MIAMI AND WABASH COUNTIES... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN MIAMI INTO SOUTHERN WABASH COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 5:54 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
654 PM EDT SUN MAY 20 2012
INZ003-202330-
LA PORTE IN-
554 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN LA PORTE COUNTY...
AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA CROSSE...OR 10 MILES
EAST OF DE MOTTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
DIMES...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS TO 50
MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN
LA PORTE COUNTY BEHIND THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LA CROSSE...
WANATAH...
KINGSFORD HEIGHTS...
THOMASTON AND SOUTH WANATAH...
HANNA...
TRACY...SOUTH CENTER AND UNION MILLS...
LAT...LON 4159 8678 4146 8660 4141 8667 4141 8669
4139 8670 4126 8687 4124 8693 4140 8694
TIME...MOT...LOC 2253Z 219DEG 24KT 4128 8692The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 9:02 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.