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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

June 26, 2021Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 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, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana

County Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 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

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The text

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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 26, 12:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 12:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 4:26 AM EDT, 11 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 11:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 11:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1156 AM EDT SAT JUN 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 AM     HEAVY RAIN       1 NNE SIMONTON LAKE     41.76N 85.96W
06/26/2021  M4.00 INCH       ELKHART            IN   PUBLIC

            31 HOUR TOTAL. REPORTED VIA FACEBOOK.

&&

RTC

Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1207 PM EDT SAT JUN 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0731 AM     HEAVY RAIN       3 W MIDDLEBURY          41.67N 85.77W
06/26/2021  E3.76 INCH       ELKHART            IN   PUBLIC

            2 DAY TOTAL. REPORTED VIA FACEBOOK.

&&

RTC

Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1209 PM EDT SAT JUN 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0939 AM     HEAVY RAIN       KNOX                    41.30N 86.62W
06/26/2021  M5.00 INCH       STARKE             IN   PUBLIC

            2 DAY TOTAL. REPORTED VIA FACEBOOK.

&&

RTC

Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
157 PM EDT SAT JUN 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0128 AM     TSTM WND DMG     1 NNW NAPPANEE          41.46N 85.99W
06/26/2021                   ELKHART            IN   NWS EMPLOYEE

            SEVERAL TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH SOME
            DAMAGE TO THE SIDE OF A RESIDENCE FROM THE
            TREE LIMBS. ALSO TREE DAMAGE AT THE
            MCCORMICK CREEK GOLF COURSE.

&&

LWF

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:30 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
330 PM EDT Sat Jun 26 2021

INZ003-MIZ077-262000-
La Porte-Berrien-
330 PM EDT Sat Jun 26 2021

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN LA PORTE
AND SOUTHWESTERN BERRIEN COUNTIES...

At 330 PM EDT/230 PM CDT/, strong thunderstorms were clustered over
Long Beach, or near Michigan City, moving northeast at 40 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Michigan City, Trail Creek, Bridgman, New Buffalo, Three Oaks, Long
Beach, Stevensville, Pottawattamie Park, Shorewood-Tower Hill,
Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Baroda, Michiana Shores, Grand Beach,
Michiana, Union Pier, Glendora, New Troy, Harbert, Pottawattomie Park
and Sawyer.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 94 in Indiana between mile markers 42 and 45.
 Interstate 94 in Michigan between mile markers 0 and 22.

&&

LAT...LON 4173 8691 4175 8693 4183 8678 4192 8666
      4201 8661 4204 8646 4184 8644 4167 8693
      4171 8693
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 238DEG 35KT 4176 8690

HAIL...0.25
WIND...50MPH

MCS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 9:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass	28 min
Jun 25, 9:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	DeKalb	14 min
Jun 25, 9:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass	9 min
Jun 25, 10:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Fulton, Pulaski	38 min
Jun 25, 10:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Pulaski	3 hr
Jun 25, 11:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Starke	3 hr
Jun 25, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	32 min
Jun 26, 1:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	3 hr
Jun 26, 1:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	32 min
Jun 26, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	31 min
Jun 26, 10:35 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	70 hr
Jun 26, 10:35 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke	5 days
Jun 26, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		114 min
Jun 26, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		34 min
Jun 26, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	47 min
Jun 26, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	36 min
Jun 26, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	24 min
Jun 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		95 min
Jun 26, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	61 min
Jun 26, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	44 min
Jun 26, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	40 min
Jun 26, 7:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	14 min
Jun 26, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke, White	41 min
Jun 26, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	52 min
Jun 26, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart	31 min
Jun 25, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Williams	26 min
Jun 26, 2:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	61 min
Jun 26, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	65 min
Jun 26, 3:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	32 min
Jun 26, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	32 min
Jun 26, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	29 min
Jun 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass	25 min
Jun 26, 4:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass, Saint Joseph	17 min
Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	23 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.