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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Northern Indiana

July 21, 2019Blackford County, Grant County, Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this heat advisory at Jul 21, 2019, 10:32 AM EDT for Blackford County, Grant County, Jay County, Indiana. It took effect at Jul 21, 2019, 10:48 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2019, 10:32 AM EDT (14:32 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 21, 2019, 10:48 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 21, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN, Jay County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:35 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 899 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 21, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 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
Jul 20, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange	28 min
Jul 21, 4:39 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	IWX		49 hr
Jul 21, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	43 min
Jul 21, 3:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	4 hr
Jul 21, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	61 min
Jul 21, 3:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	4 hr
Jul 21, 3:46 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		36 hr
Jul 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	42 min
Jul 21, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	51 min
Jul 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	DeKalb	36 min
Jul 21, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton, Marshall	63 min
Jul 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley	55 min
Jul 21, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley	29 min
Jul 21, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells	46 min
Jul 21, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko, Noble	42 min
Jul 21, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, Noble, Whitley	67 min
Jul 21, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells	58 min
Jul 21, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	54 min
Jul 21, 7:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Defiance	23 min
Jul 21, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Henry	33 min
Jul 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Williams	3 hr
Jul 21, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	28 min
Jul 21, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Williams	6 hr
Jul 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Defiance	73 min
Jul 21, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, Putnam, Van Wert	70 min
Jul 21, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Henry	90 min

Nearby

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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.