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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 29, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2016, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Hillsdale County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 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
- 381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 29, 6:44 AM EDT, 6 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 6:44 AM EDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 3:48 AM EDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 348 AM EDT FRI JUL 29 2016 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-300800- 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 348 AM EDT FRI JUL 29 2016 /248 AM CDT FRI JUL 29 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 FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ACCOMPANY STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A LOW CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-300800- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 348 AM EDT FRI JUL 29 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 FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A LOW CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 29, 8:59 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 29, 1:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
100 PM EDT FRI JUL 29 2016
MIZ081-291730-
HILLSDALE-
100 PM EDT FRI JUL 29 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN HILLSDALE COUNTY...
AT 1259 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER READING...OR 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF HILLSDALE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HILLSDALE...READING...LONG LAKE...CAMBRIA...BEAR LAKE AND LAKE
WILSON.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
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LAT...LON 4178 8465 4182 8483 4190 8483 4193 8481
4193 8463
TIME...MOT...LOC 1659Z 269DEG 4KT 4186 8479
NWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 3:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 45 min |
| Jul 29, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 6:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash | 32 min |
| Jul 29, 10:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Branch | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Berrien | 27 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.