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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm watch at Feb 28, 2014, 4:30 AM EST for 11 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Mar 1, 2014, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2014, 4:30 AM EST (09:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2014, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2014, 1:23 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Allen County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 1741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 27, 6:57 PM EST, 9 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 6:57 PM EST, 9 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 1:07 PM EST, 15 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 107 PM EST THU FEB 27 2014 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-LMZ043-046-MIZ077>081-OHZ001- 002-004-005-015-016-024-025-281815- 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- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 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 107 PM EST THU FEB 27 2014 /1207 PM CST THU FEB 27 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN AND PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM LESS THAN A HALF INCH ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA...TO UP TO AN INCH ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT TONIGHT BUT LOW TEMPERATURES WILL FALL WELL BELOW ZERO OVER MOST OF THE AREA. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SOME RIVERS IN THE WABASH AND MAUMEE RIVER BASINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SOME RIVERS IN THE WABASH AND MAUMEE RIVER BASINS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WIND CHILLS OF 15 BELOW ZERO ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING. ACCUMULATING SNOW IS LIKELY IN THE AREA FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME... HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... REPORTS OF ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE APPRECIATED THIS AFTERNOON. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Indiana, 2014Winter Storm Watches in Ohio, 2014Every winter storm watch 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.