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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2014, 4:22 PM EDT for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 38 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 6, 2014, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Allen County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Oct 6, 3:38 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 3:38 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 856 AM EDT MON OCT 6 2014 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-071300- LA PORTE-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-BERRIEN- CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE- HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...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...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 856 AM EDT MON OCT 6 2014 /756 AM CDT MON OCT 6 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY MIDDAY INTO THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-071300- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 856 AM EDT MON OCT 6 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONDITIONS WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON...QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER PERIOD OF HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 308 PM EDT MON OCT 6 2014 INZ004-005-014-061945- ELKHART IN-MARSHALL IN-ST. JOSEPH IN- 308 PM EDT MON OCT 6 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHEASTERN MARSHALL... SOUTHEASTERN ST. JOSEPH AND SOUTHWESTERN ELKHART COUNTIES... AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF LAKEVILLE...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO ONE HALF INCH SIZED HAIL. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...AND WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BREMEN... LAKEVILLE... WAKARUSA... LAKE OF THE WOODS... WYATT... WOODLAND... LAT...LON 4168 8602 4149 8589 4137 8633 4146 8641 TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 238DEG 24KT 4144 8631 MARSILI
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 5:04 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 72 hr | |
| Oct 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaGrange | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 30 min |
| Oct 6, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Steuben | 40 min |
| Oct 6, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 40 min |
| Oct 6, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 55 min |
| Oct 6, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash, Whitley | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 23 min |
| Oct 6, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 29 min |
| Oct 6, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 49 min |
| Oct 6, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Putnam | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Buren | 30 min |
| Oct 6, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 25 min |
| Oct 6, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 43 min |
| Oct 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Hillsdale | 22 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.