Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 8:21 PM EDT for Adams County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Jul 5, 2012, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Adams County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 3395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS83 KIWX 060021
SPSIWX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
821 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012
INZ027-060045-
ADAMS IN-
821 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ADAMS COUNTY...
AT 817 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERNE...OR 7 MILES EAST OF
BLUFFTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
UP TO DIME SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BERNE...
LINN GROVE...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 4074 8507 4076 8508 4081 8507 4083 8505
4067 8486 4059 8507
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 336DEG 16KT 4075 8504
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 14 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 |
Nearby
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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.