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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2021, 9:31 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 6, 2021, 9:31 PM EDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2021, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
County DeKalb County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS83 KIWX 070131
SPSIWX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
931 PM EDT Fri Aug 6 2021
INZ007-009-070215-
De Kalb IN-Steuben IN-
931 PM EDT Fri Aug 6 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Steuben and
northern De Kalb Counties through 1015 PM EDT...
At 930 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Waterloo, or 8 miles northeast of Kendallville, moving east at 25
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Waterloo around 940 PM EDT.
Other locations in the path of this storm include Hamilton and
Butler.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 69 in Indiana between mile markers 332 and 345.
Interstate 80 in Indiana near mile marker 156.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 4164 8481 4146 8480 4139 8481 4140 8519
4158 8519
TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 265DEG 21KT 4150 8510
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
$$
NWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 11:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 12:23 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 12:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 2:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Noble | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 3:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 5:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 5:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Branch | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 12:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Saint Joseph | 3 hr |
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.