Alert archive / Indiana / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this red flag warning at Oct 19, 2015, 12:48 PM EDT for 21 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2015, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
All 21 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
516 WWUS83 KIWX 191648 RFWIWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1248 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-200000- /O.NEW.KIWX.FW.W.0002.151019T1648Z-151020T0000Z/ 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- 1248 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 /1148 AM CDT MON OCT 19 2015/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FINE FUELS ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * WIND...SOUTH SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * TEMPERATURES...RISING INTO THE MID 60S...WITH UPPER 60S POSSIBLE NORTHWEST INDIANA. * HUMIDITY...22 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONTROL OF GRASS AND BRUSH FIRES COULD BE LOST RAPIDLY...POTENTIALLY IMPACTING ADJACENT FIELDS AND BUILDINGS. BURNING OF ANY NATURE IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
713 WWUS83 KIWX 191930 RFWIWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 330 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-200000- /O.CON.KIWX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-151020T0000Z/ LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB- STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN- WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD- JAY- 330 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 /230 PM CDT MON OCT 19 2015/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FINE FUELS ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA... * WIND...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH. * TEMPERATURES...MID 60S TO AROUND 70 THROUGH SUNSET. * HUMIDITY...20 TO 30 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONTROL OF GRASS AND BRUSH FIRES COULD BE LOST RAPIDLY...POTENTIALLY IMPACTING ADJACENT FIELDS AND BUILDINGS. BURNING OF ANY NATURE IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
447 WWUS83 KIWX 200006 RFWIWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 806 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-200115- /O.EXP.KIWX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-151020T0000Z/ 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- 806 PM EDT MON OCT 19 2015 /706 PM CDT MON OCT 19 2015/ ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED THIS EVENING AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WERE SLOWLY RISING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. CONDITIONS ON TUESDAY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS SEVERE AS TODAY BUT IT WILL REMAIN DRY AND WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL STILL CREATE FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 10:29 AM EDT | Gale Warning | IWX | 10 hr | |
| Oct 19, 10:29 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 28 hr |
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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.