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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Northern Indiana

April 19, 2025Blackford County, Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2025, 6:16 AM EDT for Blackford County, Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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
Apr 19, 2025, 6:16 AM EDT (10:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2025, 6:47 AM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Blackford County, IN, Jay County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-19Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 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
Apr 19, 6:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHuntington32 min
Apr 19, 6:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen29 min
Apr 19, 7:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXDefiance, Henry30 min

Nearby

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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.