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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 6, 2012LaGrange County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2012, 5:59 PM EDT for LaGrange County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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 6, 2012, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County LaGrange County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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

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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 Jul 5, 7:33 PM EDT, 22 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 7:33 PM EDT, 22 hours 26 minutes before

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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, 4:19 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.