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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

February 19, 2015Saint Joseph County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Feb 19, 2015, 3:11 PM EST for Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 64 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: Feb 19, 2015, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 2015, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Saint Joseph County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Feb 18, 6:43 PM EST, 20 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 6:43 PM EST, 20 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 19, 12:01 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, Noble	59 min
Feb 19, 1:12 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, Noble, Saint Joseph	63 min
Feb 19, 2:10 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Noble, Saint Joseph	65 min
Feb 19, 4:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	65 min
Feb 19, 6:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	72 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.