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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2016, 2:21 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 31, 2016, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County LaPorte County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
562
WWUS83 KIWX 311921
SPSIWX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
221 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
INZ003-012-311945-
STARKE-LA PORTE-
221 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL STARKE AND CENTRAL
LA PORTE COUNTIES...
AT 221 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LA CROSSE...OR NEAR
MALDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KINGSFORD HEIGHTS...WANATAH...LA CROSSE...HANNA...KINGSBURY...
THOMASTON...SOUTH CENTER...SALEM HEIGHTS...FISH LAKE...STILLWELL...
SOUTH WANATAH...UNION MILLS AND TRACY.
&&
LAT...LON 4147 8693 4164 8655 4141 8652 4128 8692
4131 8693
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 237DEG 53KT 4136 8691
$$
BENTLEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 3:04 PM CDT | Gale Watch | IWX | 30 hr | |
| Mar 31, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Marshall | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Buren | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Berrien | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Hillsdale | 29 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.