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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2021, 2:58 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Starke County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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 26, 2021, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2021, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties LaPorte County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted.
376 WUUS53 KIWX 261958 SVRIWX INC091-149-262045- /O.NEW.KIWX.SV.W.0042.210626T1958Z-210626T2045Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Northern Indiana 258 PM CDT Sat Jun 26 2021 The National Weather Service in Northern Indiana has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northern Starke County in northwestern Indiana... La Porte County in northwestern Indiana... * Until 345 PM CDT. * At 258 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Kouts, or over Malden, moving northeast at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... La Porte, Westville, Kingsford Heights, Wanatah, Hamlet, La Crosse, Hanna, Kingsbury, Byron, Thomaston, Pinhook, South Center, Salem Heights, Fish Lake, South Wanatah, Brems, Tracy, Rolling Prarie, Stillwell and Union Mills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CDT for northwestern Indiana. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4154 8693 4171 8653 4139 8653 4124 8693 TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 240DEG 37KT 4135 8703 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ MCS
2 follow-up statements
577 WWUS53 KIWX 262021 SVSIWX Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Northern Indiana 321 PM CDT Sat Jun 26 2021 INC091-149-262045- /O.CON.KIWX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-210626T2045Z/ Starke IN-La Porte IN- 321 PM CDT Sat Jun 26 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN STARKE AND CENTRAL LA PORTE COUNTIES... At 321 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Kingsford Heights, or 10 miles south of La Porte, moving northeast at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... La Porte, Kingsford Heights, Hamlet, Hanna, Kingsbury, Byron, Thomaston, South Center, Salem Heights, Fish Lake, Brems, Tracy, Stillwell and Union Mills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CDT for northwestern Indiana. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 4155 8683 4171 8653 4139 8653 4129 8681 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 243DEG 38KT 4146 8674 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ MCS
843
WWUS53 KIWX 262040
SVSIWX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
340 PM CDT Sat Jun 26 2021
INC091-149-262050-
/O.EXP.KIWX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-210626T2045Z/
Starke IN-La Porte IN-
340 PM CDT Sat Jun 26 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN STARKE AND
CENTRAL LA PORTE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CDT for northwestern
Indiana.
LAT...LON 4155 8683 4171 8653 4139 8653 4129 8681
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 240DEG 37KT 4155 8653
$$
MCSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 14 min |
| Jun 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass | 9 min |
| Jun 25, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Starke | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 12:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 12:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 9:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 70 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke | 5 days |
| Jun 26, 12:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 114 min | |
| Jun 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 34 min | |
| Jun 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 95 min | |
| Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 14 min |
| Jun 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke, White | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 31 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.