Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 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, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Allen County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 2344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
793 WWUS83 KIWX 172021 SPSIWX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 421 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012 INZ018-OHZ015-172100- ALLEN IN-PAULDING OH- 421 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD WESTERN PAULDING AND EAST CENTRAL ALLEN COUNTIES... AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW HAVEN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODBURN... ANTWERP... PAYNE... ZULU... EDGERTON... MCGILL... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS 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 4123 8463 4099 8464 4106 8515 4116 8514 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 274DEG 20KT 4109 8497 $$
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, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 52 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, 4:51 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 |
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.