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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 1:40 PM EDT for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 14, 2012, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2012, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Fulton County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 921 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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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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 14, 12:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 437 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012 LMZ043-046-150845- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 437 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OVER 35 KNOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OVER 35 KNOTS. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-150845- 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 437 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012 /337 AM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. SOME GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. HIGH TEMPERATURES NEAR OR APPROACHING 95 DEGREES ARE LIKELY MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH PEAK AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX READINGS FROM 95 TO AROUND 100. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:14 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 14, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Miami | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash | 21 min |
| Jul 14, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 15 min |
| Jul 14, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 19 min |
| Jul 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 6:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 22 min |
| Jul 14, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 33 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.