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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

April 3, 2014Grant County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2014, 1:39 AM EDT for Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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: Apr 3, 2014, 1:39 AM EDT (05:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2014, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Grant County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 511 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

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 Apr 3, 12:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 1:05 AM EDT, 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 1:39 AM EDT, 0 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
Apr 3, 4:40 AM EDT	Gale Watch	IWX		11 hr
Apr 3, 12:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Jay, Wells	3 hr
Apr 3, 12:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells	6 hr
Apr 3, 1:49 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen	6 days
Apr 3, 1:49 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wabash, Wells	4 days
Apr 3, 1:49 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke	5 days
Apr 3, 2:34 PM EDT	Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 13 more	16 hr
Apr 3, 3:18 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Wabash	31 hr
Apr 3, 3:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Grant, Huntington and 4 more	12 hr
Apr 3, 3:52 PM EDT	Gale Warning	IWX		30 hr
Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	5 days
Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wells	4 days
Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash	71 hr
Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	4 days
Apr 3, 4:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	70 hr
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	3 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	7 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	5 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen	37 hr
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Noble	12 days
Apr 3, 4:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Noble	4 days
Apr 3, 4:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	7 days
Apr 3, 12:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	6 hr
Apr 3, 1:49 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Williams	8 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Allen, Paulding, Putnam	4 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance	4 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	4 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Henry	5 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Williams	5 days
Apr 3, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Putnam	4 days

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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.