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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Northern Indiana

March 23, 201318 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm watch at Mar 23, 2013, 4:45 AM EDT for 18 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Mar 24, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2013, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 24, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 24, 2013, 4:47 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

All 26 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 22, 8:11 PM EDT, 8 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 8:11 PM EDT, 8 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 4:58 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		4 days

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Indiana, 2013 Winter Storm Watches in Ohio, 2013 Every winter storm watch in 2013

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.