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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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 17, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Fulton County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
756
WWUS83 KIWX 171908
SPSIWX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
308 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012
INZ015-016-172000-
FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO IN-
308 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN KOSCIUSKO AND
NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTIES...
AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
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...
BURKET...
BEAVER DAM LAKE...
SILVER LAKE AND CLAYPOOL...
PACKERTON...
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 4109 8635 4118 8610 4114 8575 4105 8584
4105 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 288DEG 14KT 4111 8603
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 19 min |
| Jul 17, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 39 min |
| Jul 17, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, Wells | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaGrange | 66 min |
| Jul 17, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Paulding | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 59 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.