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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT for Whitley County, Indiana. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 14, 7:04 PM EDT, 22 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 7:04 PM EDT, 22 hours 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 24 min |
| May 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 39 min |
| May 15, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash | 39 min |
| May 15, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 35 min |
| May 15, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 28 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.