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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2012, 2:33 AM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana; Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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 19, 2012, 2:33 AM EDT (06:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2012, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties DeKalb County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Branch County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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, 7:43 PM EDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 7:43 PM EDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 743 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 .AVIATION... ONCE AGAIN A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY REGARDING CONVECTION AT TAF SITES THIS PERIOD. RADAR SHOWING ISOLATED CONVECTION TO NW OF KFWA SO HAD TO CONTINUE A VCTS FOR A FEW HOURS AS MOVEMENT IS TOWARD AIRPORT. NEXT FOCUS IS ON CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IN WI AT 2330Z MOVING EAST. TRAJECTORY SCHEMES ARE SPLIT ON THIS SYSTEM MOVING EAST AND TAKING A DIVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD OUR AREA OVERNIGHT. MODELS NOT HANDLING THIS FEATURE WELL WITH NAM12 CLOSE BUT SEVERAL HOURS OFF IT WOULD APPEAR. HAVE HEDGED TOWARD A VCSH FOR NOW AT KSBN AND WILL HAVE TO MONITOR TRENDS NEXT SEVERAL HOURS FOR LATE EVENING UPDATE OR INCLUSION OF TSRA INTO 06Z TAFS. WEAK BOUNDARY STILL IN AREA ON THURSDAY WITH DEGREE OF CONVECTION CONTIGENT ON WHAT OVERNIGHT SYSTEM DOES. THEREFORE JUST A VCSH AT KFWA TOMORROW AT THIS JUNCTURE. && .SHORT TERM... /TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/ COMPLICATED FORECAST OVER THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS WITH NUMEROUS FEATURES TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT FOR CONVECTIVE CHANCES AND EFFECTS ON TEMPS. CLUSTER OF STG-SVR TSTMS HAS NOW MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA. ADDITIONAL ISOLATED STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTH OF US 30 FROM NE ILLINOIS TOWARDS ROCHESTER AND LOCATIONS SE. WHILE SOME STRONGER CORES HAVE BEEN NOTED...THESE ARE BEHAVING AS EXPECTED WITH MORE OF A PULSE NATURE AT THIS TIME WITH STRONGEST SHEAR REMAINING NORTH OF THE AREA. WHILE AREAS EAST OF I-69 HAVE STABILIZED SOMEWHAT...NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES REMAIN AND SOME HINTS OF CLEARING/EROSION ON THE NW FRINGES OF THE CLOUD COVER RAISE AT LEAST SOME CONCERNS. GIVEN THESE FACTORS...WILL ALLOW SVR TSTM WATCH TO RIDE FOR THE TIME BEING. LOCATIONS NW OF THE RECENT CONVECTION HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO DESTABILIZE WITH MANY LOCATIONS BACK INTO THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. WITH BOUNDARIES MOVING INTO THESE UNSTABLE AREAS...ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY FIRE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE...WITH ISOLATED STRONG WINDS POSSIBLE. HAVE WENT PRE 1ST PERIOD AND WENT CHC/SCT WORDING FOR THE TIME BEING. AS FOR REMAINING HEAT ADVISORY...WILL LEAVE INTACT THROUGH EXPIRATION. AREAS HAVE COOLED EAST OF 69 AND LIKELY WON'T RECOVER MUCH...BUT WITH SOME CLEARING POSSIBLE AND SURROUNDING OFFICES CONTINUING...WILL KEEP HEADLINES INTACT. FOCUS THEN TURNS TO UPSTREAM COMPLEX OF STORMS TAKING SHAPE ACROSS MN/IA/WI. TRENDS WOULD SUGGEST THESE SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SE TOWARDS THE REGION AS STATIONARY BOUNDARY REMAINS FOCUSED ACROSS THE AREA. THIS ACTIVITY WOULD NOT LIKELY MOVE IN UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. HAVE PLAYED POPS CONSERVATIVE TONIGHT WITH LOW END CHC FOR THE TIME BEING AND PASS ONTO EVE SHIFT TO MONITOR UPSTREAM TRENDS. A MUGGY NIGHT WILL BE IN STORE WITH LOWS AROUND 70 INTO THE LOWER 70S. CHANCES FOR RAINFALL LOOK CONSERVATIVELY PROMISING DURING THE DAY THURSDAY AS FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WITH AN WEAK SFC WAVE AND AT LEAST SOME UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SET TO MOVE THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WHILE GUIDANCE IS PAINTING LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS...HAVE INCREASED POPS COMPARED TO PREV FORECAST...BUT HELD IN MID TO HIGH CHC RANGE WITH CONCERNS ABOUT EXACT LOCATION OF FRONT AND OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING CONVECTION AND/OR DEBRIS. THESE SAME CONCERNS WARRANT KEEPING SOMEWHAT COOLER FOR TEMPS WITH HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE WARM START...IF ANY AMOUNT OF CLEARING IS IN PLACE IN THE MORNING...TEMPS WILL TOP 90 IN SEVERAL SPOTS AGAIN. FINALLY INTO THURS NGT...CONVECTION MAY BE LEFT OVER...BUT SHOULD BE ON THE DECREASE. HAVE LEFT THURS NGT UNTOUCHED IN TERMS OF SENSIBLE WEATHER. && .LONG TERM... CONTD DRY AND HOT THIS PD AS ACTIVE WRLY FLW REMAINS FOCUSED OVR SRN CANADA ATOP FLAT SUB-TROPICAL RIDGING ACRS THE SRN US. OUTSIDE BRIEF PD OF NR SEASONABLE TEMPS THU/FRI...STAUNCH MID LVL RIDGE AND ASSOCD THERMAL RIDGE CNTRD OVR KS BLDS BACK EWD THROUGH THE OH VALLEY. THUS PREFERENCE FOR WELL ABV MOS TEMPS HOLDS...ESP DYS 4-10 W/NR 100 DEGREE TEMPS PSBL AGAIN ASSUMING DROUGHT FEEDBACK CONTS MON-WED. OTHERWISE WX NIL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF RIDGING SFC AND ALOFT THROUGH AT LEAST DY6. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && SHORT TERM...FISHER LONG TERM...T AVIATION...LASHLEY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 4:32 AM EDT, 22 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 432 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 INZ013-015>018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-190845- PULASKI-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI- WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-PAULDING-PUTNAM- VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...ROCHESTER... WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...PAULDING... ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 432 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM TONIGHT WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. ISOLATED HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ003>009-012-014-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-190845- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- MARSHALL-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS- FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER... HILLSDALE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE... NAPOLEON 432 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 /332 AM CDT WED JUL 18 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO OCCUR...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-190845- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 432 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS...ESPECIALLY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. IF STORMS DO OCCUR... WIND GUSTS OVER 35 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 18, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Steuben | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 115 min | |
| Jul 18, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 12:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 1:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaGrange, Noble, Whitley | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 4:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 5:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and 4 more | 115 min |
| Jul 19, 5:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Noble, Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 3:28 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 31 hr | |
| Jul 19, 6:03 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | IWX | 34 hr | |
| Jul 19, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Miami | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton, Williams | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Wert | 30 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2012Special Weather Statements in Michigan, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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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.