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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 2015, 2:34 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2015, 2:34 PM EST (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2015, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 23, 1:35 PM EST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 1:35 PM EST, 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 456 AM EST WED DEC 23 2015 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-241000- 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 456 AM EST WED DEC 23 2015 /356 AM CST WED DEC 23 2015/ 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 RISK FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY LEADING TO SOME FLOODING... OVER THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A COUPLE OF MOISTURE LADEN LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS MOVE FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-241000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 456 AM EST WED DEC 23 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY WITH A GALE WARNING TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... CAUSING LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND WAVES. A FEW STORM FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE LIKELY THURSDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/?N=MARINE
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 4:36 AM EST | Gale Warning | IWX | 29 hr | |
| Dec 23, 1:16 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 59 min | |
| Dec 23, 1:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski, White | 43 min |
| Dec 23, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 29 min |
| Dec 23, 1:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 31 min |
| Dec 23, 2:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Wabash | 33 min |
| Dec 23, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 44 min |
| Dec 23, 3:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Wabash, Whitley | 44 min |
| Dec 23, 3:47 PM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb, Noble, Steuben | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 4:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Wells | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 5:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Williams | 29 min |
| Dec 23, 5:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 40 min |
| Dec 23, 5:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, Fulton, Henry, Putnam | 50 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.