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Areal Flood Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this areal flood warning at Aug 30, 2016, 9:08 AM EDT for Berrien County, Cass County, Michigan. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 30, 2016, 9:08 AM EDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Berrien County, MI, Cass County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Aug 30, 6:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 6:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 451 AM EDT TUE AUG 30 2016 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-310900- 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...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN...NAPPANEE... LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT...KENDALLVILLE... LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH... BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE... SYRACUSE...MENTONE...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY... FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO...MONON...BROOKSTON... LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB...MEXICO...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN... DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND...HARTFORD CITY... MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...NILES...BENTON HARBOR... ST. JOSEPH...FAIR PLAIN...BENTON HEIGHTS...BUCHANAN...PAW PAW LAKE... DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER...BRONSON...HILLSDALE... JONESVILLE...LITCHFIELD...BRYAN...EDGERTON...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD... SWANTON...DELTA...DEFIANCE...SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON... DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER...PAULDING...ANTWERP...PAYNE...OTTAWA... LEIPSIC...COLUMBUS GROVE...CONTINENTAL...PANDORA...VAN WERT... OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 451 AM EDT TUE AUG 30 2016 /351 AM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED, BUT HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSING LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS DUE TO HIGH WAVES AND RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED AT SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-310900- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 451 AM EDT TUE AUG 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS, POSSIBLY ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 30 KNOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY MORNING. HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 5:53 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:33 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 61 hr | |
| Aug 30, 3:35 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | IWX | 61 hr | |
| Aug 30, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Whitley | 26 min |
| Aug 30, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 5:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Whitley | 119 min |
| Aug 30, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 32 min |
| Aug 30, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 54 min |
| Aug 30, 7:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Adams, Huntington, Wells | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Grant | 38 min |
| Aug 30, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford, Jay | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 5:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 52 min |
| Aug 30, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Williams | 25 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.