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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Northern Indiana

August 5, 2024LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2024, 7:48 AM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 5, 2024, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2024, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Berrien County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 5, 5:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 5:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:34 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 6:28 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		92 min
Aug 5, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		48 min
Aug 5, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte	41 min
Aug 5, 8:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	35 min
Aug 5, 8:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Starke	28 min
Aug 5, 8:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Starke	28 min
Aug 5, 9:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Marshall, Starke	33 min
Aug 5, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2024 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.