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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2022, 1:39 PM EDT for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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, 2022, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2022, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
County Elkhart County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 1:29 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:29 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:23 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko, Whitley | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Whitley | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | IWX | 49 hr | |
| Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 43 hr | |
| Aug 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Grant | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Jay | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Henry | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Van Wert | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 38 min |
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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.