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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

April 25, 2016Branch County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Apr 25, 2016, 11:10 PM EDT for Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 2016, 11:10 PM EDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 2016, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

County Branch County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 25, 11:20 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGSherwood, MIREPORT OF TREE AND POWER LINE DOWN PER EM AND BRANCH COUNTY DISPATCH

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 2016-04-26Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2016-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

453 
WWUS83 KIWX 260310
SPSIWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1110 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016
 
MIZ080-260345-
BRANCH-
1110 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN BRANCH COUNTY...

AT 1110 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR COLON...OR 15 MILES
NORTH OF STURGIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  UNION CITY AROUND 1125 PM EDT.
  COLDWATER AROUND 1140 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE HODUNK...GIRARD AND
SHERWOOD.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 IN MICHIGAN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 11 AND
21.
 
&&

LAT...LON 4191 8497 4197 8529 4207 8529 4207 8497
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 273DEG 28KT 4201 8531 
$$

JBALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 11:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX86 min
Apr 26, 12:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXElkhart, Saint Joseph61 min
Apr 26, 1:33 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXElkhart, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben57 min
Apr 25, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBerrien34 min
Apr 25, 9:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXCass36 min
Apr 25, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Saint Joseph37 min
Apr 25, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph47 min
Apr 25, 11:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHillsdale50 min
Apr 26, 12:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHillsdale30 min
Apr 26, 12:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBranch, Hillsdale56 min
Apr 26, 1:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXWilliams67 min
Apr 26, 1:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXFulton29 min
Apr 26, 1:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXFulton27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.