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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2020, 4:04 PM EDT for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 9, 2020, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 9, 1:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 3:31 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Northern Indiana 331 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020 INZ005>009-016>018-023>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-015- 016-024-025-101200- Elkhart-Lagrange-Steuben-Noble-De Kalb-Kosciusko-Whitley-Allen 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- 331 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Severe thunderstorms are possible this evening. The primary hazard is damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Severe thunderstorms are possible again on Wednesday, especially south central Lower Michigan, extreme northeast Indianan and northwest Ohio. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed. LMZ043-046-101200- New Buffalo MI to St Joseph MI-Michigan City IN to New Buffalo MI- 331 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM WEDNESDAY TO 5 AM EDT THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the nearshore waters of southeastern Lake Michigan. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. Small Craft Advisory. Thunderstorms are possible tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Small Craft Advisory. INZ003-004-012>015-020-022-101200- La Porte-St. Joseph IN-Starke-Pulaski-Marshall-Fulton IN-White- Cass IN- 331 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020 /231 PM CDT Tue Jun 9 2020/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Severe thunderstorms are possible this evening. The primary hazard is damaging wind gusts. However, there is a non-zero risk for an isolated tornado. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday, but widespread hazardous weather is not expected. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
404 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020
INZ015>018-022>026-032-033-092045-
Miami-Wabash-Whitley-Huntington-Kosciusko-Blackford-Wells-Allen-Cass-
Fulton-Grant-
404 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2020
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN...
WABASH...NORTHERN GRANT...SOUTHERN WHITLEY...WESTERN BLACKFORD...
HUNTINGTON...CENTRAL FULTON...SOUTHERN KOSCIUSKO...WESTERN WELLS...
NORTHEASTERN CASS AND MIAMI COUNTIES...
At 404 PM EDT, radar indicated a line of showers and thunderstorms
located along a line extending from near Bunker Hill to near
Sweetser to near Hartford City. Movement was north at 50 mph.
Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with these showers and storms.
These storms will be near...
Grissom Afb, Bunker Hill and La Fontaine around 410 PM EDT.
Peru around 420 PM EDT.
Wabash, Andrews and Mexico around 425 PM EDT.
Markle around 435 PM EDT.
Huntington, North Manchester and Akron around 440 PM EDT.
South Whitley around 445 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by these storms include Mcnatts, Bennetts
Switch, Landess, Nyena Lake, Erie, Liberty Mills, Aboite, Deedsville,
Liberty Center and Macy.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 469 near mile marker 3, and between mile markers 7 and 8.
Interstate 69 in Indiana between mile markers 258 and 302.
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LAT...LON 4052 8573 4052 8586 4057 8587 4056 8616
4116 8625 4117 8572 4103 8523 4039 8531
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 180DEG 43KT 4060 8606 4060 8574 4050 8541
HAIL...0.25
WIND...50MPH
JBALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:40 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, White | 19 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:48 AM EDT | Gale Warning | IWX | 22 hr | |
| Jun 9, 3:48 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 55 hr | |
| Jun 9, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko, Marshall, Noble, Whitley | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Steuben | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Whitley | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 14 min |
| Jun 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Williams | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 14 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.