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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2013, 6:07 PM EDT for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2013, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County White County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 997 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 19, 3:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 3:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 544 AM EDT THU SEP 19 2013 INZ004>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-200945- ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-PULASKI- MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI- WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SOUTH BEND...MISHAWAKA...ELKHART... GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER... AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE... PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...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...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 544 AM EDT THU SEP 19 2013 /444 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ003-MIZ077-200945- LA PORTE-BERRIEN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN 544 AM EDT THU SEP 19 2013 /444 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS THAT INCLUDE HIGH WAVES AND AN INCREASED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-200945- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 544 AM EDT THU SEP 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 40 min |
| Sep 18, 11:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 55 min |
| Sep 19, 1:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | White | 65 min |
| Sep 19, 2:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 27 min |
| Sep 19, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 63 min |
| Sep 19, 10:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 61 min |
| Sep 19, 11:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 110 min |
| Sep 19, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall | 51 min |
| Sep 19, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Starke | 35 min |
| Sep 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Sep 19, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 38 min |
| Sep 19, 12:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Berrien | 108 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.