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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2017, 2:43 PM EDT for Allen County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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
- May 20, 2017, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2017, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
County Allen County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 20, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 20, 2:43 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
243 PM EDT SAT MAY 20 2017
OHZ025-201915-
Allen-
243 PM EDT SAT MAY 20 2017
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY...
At 243 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Lima, moving
northeast at 45 mph.
Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Lima, Bluffton, Harrod, Beaverdam, Yoder, Westminster and Rousculp.
This includes INTERSTATE 75 between MILE MARKERs 123 and 127, and
between MILE MARKERs 131 and 141.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4064 8409 4074 8409 4092 8392 4092 8388
4064 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 1843Z 232DEG 38KT 4074 8400
NWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 31 min |
| May 20, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 31 min |
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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.