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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 18, 2012Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT (16:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Wabash County, IN

The radar

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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 18, 10:43 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 10:43 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 4:32 AM EDT, 8 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 12:28 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 12:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1241 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012

INZ024-025-181700-
HUNTINGTON IN-WABASH IN-
1241 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHWESTERN HUNTINGTON...
NORTHEASTERN WABASH AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN WHITLEY COUNTIES...

AT 1239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN WABASH COUNTY...OR
NEAR NORTH MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...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...
  BRACKEN...
  BIPPUS...

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 4096 8577 4103 8575 4101 8568 4100 8568
      4100 8565 4099 8560 4090 8565
TIME...MOT...LOC 1641Z 287DEG 9KT 4097 8569

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	52 min
Jul 17, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph	61 min
Jul 17, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Steuben	59 min
Jul 17, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben	26 min
Jul 17, 8:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:55 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant and 8 more	13 hr
Jul 18, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	22 min
Jul 18, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	36 min
Jul 18, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Huntington	32 min
Jul 18, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	38 min
Jul 18, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	32 min
Jul 18, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	27 min
Jul 18, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Wells	27 min
Jul 18, 1:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Wells	3 hr
Jul 18, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton	35 min
Jul 18, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Jay	28 min
Jul 18, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Pulaski	31 min
Jul 18, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	27 min
Jul 18, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Miami	24 min
Jul 18, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford, Jay	26 min
Jul 18, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	27 min
Jul 18, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford	33 min
Jul 18, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass, White	59 min
Jul 18, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall, Starke	52 min
Jul 18, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton	25 min
Jul 18, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	30 min
Jul 18, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	42 min
Jul 17, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Defiance	65 min
Jul 17, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Henry	67 min
Jul 18, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	17 min
Jul 18, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	31 min
Jul 18, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	36 min
Jul 18, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	34 min
Jul 18, 10:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Branch	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.