Alert archive / Indiana / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Oct 14, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for DeKalb 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
- Oct 14, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County DeKalb County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
342
WWUS83 KIWX 141921
SPSIWX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
321 PM EDT SUN OCT 14 2012
INZ008-009-017-018-OHZ001-004-141945-
ALLEN IN-DE KALB IN-DEFIANCE OH-NOBLE IN-WHITLEY IN-WILLIAMS OH-
321 PM EDT SUN OCT 14 2012
...THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWESTERN WILLIAMS... NORTHWESTERN
DEFIANCE...NORTHWESTERN ALLEN...SOUTHEASTERN DE KALB...AND EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN NOBLE COUNTIES...
AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTERTOWN...OR 9 MILES WEST OF
FORT WAYNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
GARRETT...
AUBURN...
HUNTERTOWN...
GRABILL...
LAOTTO...
LEO-CEDARVILLE...SAINT JOHNS AND BUTLER CENTER...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 469 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 9.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 304 AND
330.
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 4105 8523 4119 8538 4153 8484 4153 8481
4155 8481 4156 8479 4139 8461
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 232DEG 45KT 4118 8520
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 27 min |
| Oct 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 30 min |
| Oct 14, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Steuben | 29 min |
| Oct 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 91 min | |
| Oct 14, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Hillsdale | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.