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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 18, 2015Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2015, 2:15 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 18, 2015, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Putnam County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

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Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 18, 1:49 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 1:49 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 5:54 AM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:20 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:41 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:43 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:50 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
215 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

OHZ004-015-016-181900-
PUTNAM-DEFIANCE-PAULDING-
215 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN PAULDING...CENTRAL
PUTNAM AND SOUTHEASTERN DEFIANCE COUNTIES...

AT 214 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES EAST OF PAULDING...
OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF DEFIANCE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CONTINENTAL AROUND 235 PM EDT.
  KALIDA AROUND 245 PM EDT.
  GLANDORF AROUND 255 PM EDT.
  OTTAWA AROUND 300 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE LATTY...OAKWOOD...
KIEFERVILLE...NORTH CREEK...CLOVERDALE...DUPONT...WISTERMAN...
PRENTISS...GROVER HILL AND MELROSE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4091 8410 4105 8461 4125 8448 4121 8423
      4117 8423 4117 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 1814Z 284DEG 24KT 4112 8444

JBALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte	29 min
Jul 17, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	31 min
Jul 18, 11:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange	36 min
Jul 18, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Steuben	32 min
Jul 18, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Noble	27 min
Jul 18, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Steuben	25 min
Jul 18, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	32 min
Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	31 min
Jul 18, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		41 min
Jul 18, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte	53 min
Jul 18, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	42 min
Jul 18, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Starke	45 min
Jul 18, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall, Starke	37 min
Jul 18, 6:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte	3 hr
Jul 18, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Whitley	24 min
Jul 18, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	23 min
Jul 18, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	48 min
Jul 18, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall	41 min
Jul 18, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph	47 min
Jul 18, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble, Whitley	23 min
Jul 18, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall	64 min
Jul 18, 7:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	4 hr
Jul 18, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange	46 min
Jul 18, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Noble, Whitley	53 min
Jul 18, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange, Noble, Steuben	31 min
Jul 18, 7:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Noble, Whitley	4 hr
Jul 18, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Huntington	29 min
Jul 18, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Wells	43 min
Jul 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	63 min
Jul 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley	63 min
Jul 18, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Defiance, Paulding, Williams	34 min
Jul 18, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Putnam	38 min
Jul 17, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	40 min
Jul 17, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	27 min
Jul 17, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	50 min
Jul 18, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	58 min
Jul 18, 11:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	28 min
Jul 18, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass	42 min
Jul 18, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph	47 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.