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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 12, 2017, 5:20 AM EST for 5 counties in Indiana; 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 12, 2017, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2017, 5:20 AM EST (10:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2017, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2017, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Elkhart County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 644 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 707 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Jan 12, 4:34 AM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 4:34 AM EST, 46 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jan 11, 11:21 PM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1121 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017
INZ015>018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-120615-
White-Wabash-Jay-Kosciusko-Huntington-Allen-Cass-Adams-Whitley-
Blackford-Wells-Fulton-Miami-Grant-Putnam-Van Wert-Paulding-Allen-
1121 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017
...A LINE OF showers and THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN
FULTON... MIAMI...ALLEN...ADAMS...WABASH...SOUTHEASTERN
WHITE...WHITLEY... WELLS...SOUTHEASTERN
KOSCIUSKO...CASS...HUNTINGTON...JAY...
BLACKFORD...GRANT...PAULDING...ALLEN...VAN WERT AND PUTNAM
COUNTIES...
At 1117 PM EST, radar indicated showers and thunderstorms were
located along a line extending from near Winona Lake to near
Otterbein. Movement was east at 40 mph.
Wind gusts up to 45 mph are expected along and ahead of the line of
showers and thunderstorms late this evening and into the early
morning hours of Thursday.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Wayne, Lima, Marion, Logansport, Huntington, New Haven, Peru,
Van Wert, Wabash, Bluffton, Decatur, Columbia City, Delphos,
Portland, Hartford City, North Manchester, Gas City, Winona Lake,
Ottawa and Berne.
This includes the following highways...
INTERSTATE 469 between MILE MARKERs 0 and 30.
INTERSTATE 65 near MILE MARKER 185.
INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA between MILE MARKERs 252 and 316.
INTERSTATE 75 between MILE MARKERs 119 and 141.
A period of heavy rainfall is also occurring with these showers and
storms, and may cause ponding of water on roadways.
LAT...LON 4038 8523 4038 8586 4056 8587 4056 8637
4069 8637 4069 8652 4074 8653 4070 8671
4066 8677 4056 8677 4056 8697 4121 8579
4116 8388 4065 8388 4068 8446 4073 8446
4073 8480 4031 8481 4031 8522
TIME...MOT...LOC 0417Z 270DEG 35KT 4118 8578 4046 8709
NWSSpecial weather statement, Jan 12, 12:29 AM EST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1229 AM EST THU JAN 12 2017
INZ018-023>027-032>034-OHZ015-016-024-025-120630-
Jay-Huntington-Allen-Adams-Wabash-Blackford-Wells-Miami-Grant-Putnam-
Van Wert-Allen-Paulding-
1229 AM EST THU JAN 12 2017
...Strong gusty winds and Showers WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MIAMI...
HUNTINGTON...ALLEN...JAY...ADAMS...SOUTHERN WABASH...WELLS...
BLACKFORD...GRANT...PAULDING...ALLEN...VAN WERT AND PUTNAM
COUNTIES...
At 1226 AM EST, radar indicated showers were located along a line
extending from near New Haven to 6 miles north of Kokomo. Movement
was east at 25 mph.
Wind gusts up to 45 mph are expected along and ahead of this line of
showers as it moves across northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio
early this morning.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Wayne, Lima, Marion, Huntington, New Haven, Van Wert, Bluffton,
Decatur, Delphos, Portland, Hartford City, Gas City, Ottawa, Berne,
Upland, Ossian, Fairmount, Dunkirk, Paulding and Spencerville.
This includes the following highways...
INTERSTATE 469 between MILE MARKERs 0 and 29.
INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA between MILE MARKERs 252 and 305.
INTERSTATE 75 between MILE MARKERs 119 and 141.
LAT...LON 4038 8523 4038 8586 4056 8587 4056 8616
4118 8504 4117 8388 4065 8388 4068 8446
4073 8446 4073 8480 4031 8481 4031 8522
TIME...MOT...LOC 0526Z 275DEG 24KT 4114 8503 4057 8611
NWSSpecial weather statement, Jan 12, 4:14 AM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 11:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Grant, Huntington and 5 more | 114 min |
| Jan 12, 12:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jan 12, 4:04 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 36 hr | |
| Jan 12, 7:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley | 37 min |
| Jan 12, 4:26 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 5 days |
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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.