Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT for Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 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 27, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 863 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
589 WWUS83 KIWX 272221 SPSIWX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 621 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012 INZ025-026-032>034-272245- BLACKFORD IN-GRANT IN-HUNTINGTON IN-JAY IN-WELLS IN- 621 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHERN BLACKFORD... NORTHWESTERN JAY...NORTHEASTERN GRANT...SOUTHERN WELLS...EXTREME WESTERN ADAMS AND SOUTHEASTERN HUNTINGTON COUNTIES... AT 619 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VAN BUREN...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. UP TO DIME SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLUFFTON... MONTPELIER... MCNATTS AND ROLL... MOUNT ZION AND BUCKEYE... LIBERTY CENTER... DILLMAN...PONETO AND KEYSTONE... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHWESTERN OHIO. LAT...LON 4074 8507 4047 8508 4061 8565 4077 8550 TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 275DEG 23KT 4065 8546 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 4:25 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | IWX | 42 hr | |
| Jul 27, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Miami | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, Miami, Wabash | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaGrange | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble, Whitley | 34 min |
| Jul 27, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 29 min |
| Jul 27, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Jay | 26 min |
| Jul 27, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Williams | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Putnam | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 26 min |
| Jul 27, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 36 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.