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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Sep 19, 2015, 4:13 AM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana; Henry County, Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 19, 2015, 4:13 AM EDT (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2015, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Adams County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN, Wells County, IN, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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 00:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
754
WWUS83 KIWX 190813
SPSIWX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
413 AM EDT SAT SEP 19 2015
INZ018-025>027-032>034-OHZ004-005-015-024-190915-
JAY-HUNTINGTON-ALLEN-ADAMS-BLACKFORD-WELLS-GRANT-VAN
WERT-HENRY-DEFIANCE-PAULDING-
413 AM EDT SAT SEP 19 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN JAY...
WELLS...SOUTHEASTERN HUNTINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN GRANT...ADAMS...
SOUTHEASTERN ALLEN...BLACKFORD...PAULDING...NORTHWESTERN VAN WERT...
CENTRAL HENRY AND SOUTHERN DEFIANCE COUNTIES...
AT 412 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR ANTWERP TO NEAR OSSIAN TO NEAR FAIRMOUNT...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS LINE PASSES
ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARION...DEFIANCE...NEW HAVEN...VAN WERT...BLUFFTON...DECATUR...
NAPOLEON...HARTFORD CITY...GAS CITY...BERNE...UPLAND...OSSIAN...
FAIRMOUNT...PAULDING...MONTPELIER...JONESBORO...ANTWERP...WOODBURN...
GENEVA AND MONROEVILLE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 469 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 9 AND 20.
INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 254 AND 273.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 4116 8425 4117 8434 4109 8434 4042 8518
4039 8586 4082 8530 4125 8479 4142 8395
TIME...MOT...LOC 0812Z 259DEG 24KT 4122 8477 4083 8522 4046 8574
$$
FISHERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 8:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 37 min |
| Sep 18, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 43 min |
| Sep 18, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 11:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington | 31 min |
| Sep 19, 12:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams, Wells | 56 min |
| Sep 19, 12:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams | 48 min |
| Sep 19, 1:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 95 min | |
| Sep 19, 2:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 63 min |
| Sep 19, 2:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 32 min |
| Sep 19, 3:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, Miami, Wabash | 59 min |
| Sep 19, 12:01 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 11 hr | |
| Sep 18, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 15 min |
| Sep 18, 10:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Hillsdale | 24 min |
Nearby
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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.