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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Northern Indiana

July 24, 201621 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan; 8 counties in Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this heat advisory at Jul 24, 2016, 4:05 AM EDT for 21 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan; 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Jul 24, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2016, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 24, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jul 24, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
All 33 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2016-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2016-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 8:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX85 min
Jul 23, 9:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXSaint Joseph58 min
Jul 24, 12:02 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX58 min
Jul 24, 12:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXLaPorte, Starke58 min
Jul 24, 1:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXMarshall, Pulaski, Saint Joseph, Starke60 min
Jul 24, 2:33 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXGrant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley57 min
Jul 23, 8:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBerrien35 min
Jul 24, 9:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHillsdale62 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Indiana, 2016Heat Advisories in Ohio, 2016Heat Advisories in Michigan, 2016Every heat advisory in 2016

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.