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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

October 7, 202212 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; Branch County, Hillsdale County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this freeze warning at Oct 7, 2022, 2:40 PM EDT for 12 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio; Branch County, Hillsdale County, Michigan. It took effect at Oct 8, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2022, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 8, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 8, 2022, 9:02 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
All 22 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2022-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2022-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 3:02 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryIWXCass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Miami and 4 more30 hr
Oct 7, 3:02 AM EDTFreeze WatchIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 10 more12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2022Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2022Freeze Warnings in Michigan, 2022Every freeze warning in 2022

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.