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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana

July 29, 2021LaGrange County, Steuben County, Indiana; Branch County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2021, 5:21 AM EDT for LaGrange County, Steuben County, Indiana; Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 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
Jul 29, 2021, 5:21 AM EDT (09:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

Counties LaGrange County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Branch County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2021-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 219 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2021-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

025 
WWUS83 KIWX 290921
SPSIWX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
521 AM EDT Thu Jul 29 2021

INZ006-007-009-MIZ079>081-291000-
Lagrange-De Kalb-Steuben-Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph-
521 AM EDT Thu Jul 29 2021

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT STEUBEN...NORTHWESTERN
DE KALB...LAGRANGE...EASTERN ST. JOSEPH...BRANCH AND NORTHWESTERN
HILLSDALE COUNTIES...

At 521 AM EDT, radar indicated strong thunderstorms were located
along a line extending from 8 miles east of Vicksburg to near
Millersburg. Movement was east at 45 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Sturgis, Coldwater, Angola, Hillsdale, Lagrange, Bronson, Jonesville,
Fremont, Quincy, Union City, Litchfield, Colon, Topeka, Reading, Long
Lake, Ray, Nottawa, Girard, Scott and Kinderhook.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 69 in Indiana between mile markers 338 and 357.
 Interstate 69 in Michigan between mile markers 1 and 21.
 Interstate 80 in Indiana between mile markers 114 and 151.

&&

LAT...LON 4148 8506 4150 8519 4153 8519 4152 8566
      4156 8566 4207 8542 4207 8453
TIME...MOT...LOC 0921Z 286DEG 37KT 4211 8537 4158 8564 

$$

HAIL...0.25
WIND...50MPH

PBM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 3:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX2 hr
Jul 29, 4:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXElkhart28 min
Jul 29, 4:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph52 min
Jul 29, 4:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Noble, Saint Joseph46 min
Jul 29, 5:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXFulton, Pulaski, Starke44 min
Jul 29, 5:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb, Kosciusko, Noble, Whitley50 min
Jul 29, 5:33 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen, Cass, Miami, Wabash, Whitley42 min
Jul 29, 5:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXSteuben36 min
Jul 29, 6:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb38 min
Jul 29, 6:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAdams, Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells43 min
Jul 29, 6:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen, Putnam, Van Wert49 min
Jul 29, 4:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBerrien, Cass36 min
Jul 29, 4:39 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXCass, Saint Joseph36 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.