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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2024, 6:46 PM EDT for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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 5, 2024, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2024, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Fulton County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 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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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 5, 3:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Northern Indiana 350 PM EDT Mon Aug 5 2024 INZ005>009-012>015-017-018-020-022>027-032>034-103-104-116-203-204- 216-LMZ043-046-MIZ078>081-177-277-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025- 062000- Elkhart-Lagrange-Steuben-Noble-De Kalb-Starke-Pulaski-Marshall- Fulton IN-Whitley-Allen IN-White-Cass IN-Miami-Wabash-Huntington- Wells-Adams-Grant-Blackford-Jay-Northern La Porte- Eastern St. Joseph IN-Northern Kosciusko-Southern La Porte- Western St. Joseph IN-Southern Kosciusko- New Buffalo MI to St Joseph MI-Michigan City IN to New Buffalo MI- Cass MI-St. Joseph MI-Branch-Hillsdale-Northern Berrien- Southern Berrien-Williams-Fulton OH-Defiance-Henry-Paulding-Putnam- Van Wert-Allen OH- 350 PM EDT Mon Aug 5 2024 /250 PM CDT Mon Aug 5 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana, southwest Michigan, northwest Ohio and the nearshore waters of southeastern Lake Michigan. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated thunderstorms are possible prior to sunset toward northwest Indiana. Severe weather is not anticipated. Toward dawn Tuesday, a line of thunderstorms is expected to arrive onshore from Lake Michigan. Damaging wind gusts and heavy rain are the primary hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Following the morning line of storms, additional storms are possible in the late afternoon Tuesday. All hazards are possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:46 PM EDT, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 92 min | |
| Aug 5, 8:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 48 min | |
| Aug 5, 8:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 8:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 9:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 9:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Starke | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 9:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Starke | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 10:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 33 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.