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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

August 24, 2016Miami County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2016, 3:09 PM EDT for Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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: Aug 24, 2016, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Miami County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 Aug 24, 1:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 1:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 5:48 AM EDT, 9 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 24, 3:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 3:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Grant, Miami	26 min
Aug 24, 3:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant	31 min
Aug 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Wells	30 min
Aug 24, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Pulaski	34 min
Aug 24, 4:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Blackford, Wells	31 min
Aug 24, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen	31 min
Aug 24, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IWX	Adams, Wells	35 min
Aug 24, 5:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Allen	36 min
Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass	29 min
Aug 24, 5:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IWX	Adams	36 min
Aug 24, 6:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	23 min
Aug 24, 6:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Miami	34 min
Aug 24, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Wabash	29 min
Aug 24, 6:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley	28 min
Aug 24, 6:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami	34 min
Aug 24, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Whitley	37 min
Aug 24, 7:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington	25 min
Aug 24, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen, Wells	35 min
Aug 24, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	28 min
Aug 24, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant	25 min
Aug 24, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Whitley	3 hr
Aug 24, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Paulding	31 min
Aug 24, 6:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Van Wert	36 min
Aug 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Defiance, Henry	46 min
Aug 24, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	IWX	Fulton, Henry	36 min
Aug 24, 6:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	IWX	Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	33 min
Aug 24, 7:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Putnam	32 min
Aug 24, 7:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Henry, Putnam	49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.