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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2021, 5:25 AM EDT for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 7, 2021, 5:25 AM EDT (09:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Fulton County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
646
WWUS83 KIWX 070925
SPSIWX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
525 AM EDT Sat Aug 7 2021
INZ013-015-071000-
Fulton IN-Pulaski IN-
525 AM EDT Sat Aug 7 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Pulaski
and northwestern Fulton Counties through 600 AM EDT...
At 525 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Winamac, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern Fulton
and northeastern Pulaski Counties, including the following
locations... Leiters Ford, Beardstown, Bruce Lake Station, Delong,
Lake Bruce, Vanmeter Park, Kewanna, Lawton and Monterey.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4102 8663 4114 8664 4117 8630 4099 8628
TIME...MOT...LOC 0925Z 274DEG 18KT 4108 8655
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
$$
FISHERThe 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, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb | 44 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, 5:28 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 |
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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.