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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

June 19, 2014White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2014, 4:18 PM EDT for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 19, 2014, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Jun 19, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 5:23 AM EDT, 10 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
418 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

INZ020-192100-
WHITE IN-
418 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY...

AT 414 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF BROOKSTON...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MONTICELLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES
PER HOUR OR MORE WHICH MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BROOKSTON...
  CHALMERS...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 186 AND 198.

GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS 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 4083 8710 4084 8710 4084 8699 4068 8677
      4058 8678 4059 8710
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 300DEG 17KT 4062 8695

FISHER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	49 min
Jun 18, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	48 min
Jun 18, 11:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Cass, Miami, White	3 hr
Jun 18, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	59 min
Jun 19, 12:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams	27 min
Jun 19, 2:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	24 min
Jun 19, 4:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Jay	55 min
Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant	35 min
Jun 19, 4:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	White	6 hr
Jun 19, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	37 min
Jun 19, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, White	43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.