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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 18, 2012Huntington County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2012, 1:13 PM EDT for Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2012, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Huntington County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 18, 1:53 PM EDT	HAIL 1	5 Sw Fort Wayne, IN	OBSERVER REPORTED HAIL OVER THE LAST HALF HOUR. INCREASE FROM PEA TO QUARTER SIZE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

669 
WWUS83 KIWX 181713
SPSIWX

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

INZ018-024>026-181745-
ALLEN IN-HUNTINGTON IN-WABASH IN-WELLS IN-
113 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHWESTERN WELLS...NORTHERN
HUNTINGTON...EASTERN WABASH AND SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTIES...

AT 109 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...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...
  MARKLE...
  YODER...
  HESSEN CASSEL...
  POE...
  POE...

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 4081 8572 4101 8579 4101 8568 4100 8568
      4100 8533 4109 8515 4095 8504 4083 8532
TIME...MOT...LOC 1713Z 312DEG 12KT 4094 8526

$$

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, 12:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wabash	19 min
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, 1:22 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

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.