Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT for Huntington 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 15, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Huntington County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
221 WWUS83 KIWX 152221 SPSIWX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 521 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2012 INZ017-018-025-026-152245- ALLEN IN-HUNTINGTON IN-WELLS IN-WHITLEY IN- 621 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD NORTHERN WELLS...NORTHEASTERN HUNTINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN WHITLEY AND SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTIES... AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN WHITLEY COUNTY...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ABOITE...ROANOKE AND MAHON... ROLLING HILLS... NINE MILE...ZANESVILLE AND YODER... THIS STORM WILL INTENSIFY QUICKLY AND PRODUCE A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO HALF AN INCH IN FIFTEEN MINUTES ARE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY...ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LIGHTNING. LIGHTNING CAN BE DEADLY. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE AND SEE LIGHTNING OR HEAR THUNDER... IMMEDIATELY SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR IN A VEHICLE. DO NOT GO BACK OUTSIDE UNTIL THUNDER HAS NOT BEEN HEARD FOR 30 MINUTES. LAT...LON 4102 8510 4080 8528 4103 8556 4113 8547 TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 304DEG 14KT 4103 8541 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Wells | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Starke | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wells, Whitley | 25 min |
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.