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NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 6:15 AM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 715 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006 .AVIATION... KIWX RADAR THIS MORNING WAS SHOWING A MCS ACRS WRN LOWER MICHIGAN ...NW INDIANA...THEN INTO NRN ILLINOIS. AM EXPECTING SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACRS NRN INDIANA BETWEEN TAF ISSUANCE TIME (12Z) THROUGH AT LEAST 17Z. THUS...HAVE PLACED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE KSBN AND KFWA TAFS...WITH MVFR AND LOCALLY IFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. THEREAFTER...A SFC LOW OVER IOWA AND AN ASSOCD COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE FCST AREA BY LATE AFTN/EARLY EVENING...BRINGING ANOTHER CHC FOR SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. THE EVOLUTION OF THIS CONVECTION IS SOMEWHAT MUDDLED AT THIS POINT SINCE IT WILL DEPEND ON HOW MUCH DESTABILIZATION CAN BE REALIZED AFTER THIS MORNINGS MCS. THUS...WILL NOT INCLUDE THUNDERSTORMS AT TAFS AT THIS TIME AND WILL LET NEXT TAF ISSUANCE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AFTER NEW MODEL DATA AND OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS. AT THIS POINT...KFWA APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST CHC FOR THUNDERSTORMS AS IT WILL BE IN THE WARM SECTOR THE LONGEST. OTHERWISE...THE THREAT OF PCPN WILL END DURING THE EVENING HOURS AS THE COLD FRONT AND SFC LOW PROPAGATE ESE FROM THE REGION. SOME MVFR CONDITIONS IN MIST IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...AND IT COULD LOWER INTO THE IFR CATEGORY IF ENOUGH BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER OCCUR. && .PREV DISCUSSION... UPDATE... AREA OF TSTMS TO OUR NW CONTG TO ACCELERATE SEWD IN LARGE BOW STRUCTURE. UPDATED WRN 2/3 OF COUNTIES FOR SVR TSTM WATCH THIS MORNING WITH SLIGHT UPWARD ADJUSTMENT TO POPS. SHORT TERM... LARGE AREA OF TSRA WHICH DVLPD OVER SRN MN AROUND 02Z HAS BEEN EXPANDING E-SE OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS OCRG AT NOSE OF LLJ, NEAR SHRTWV/CDFNT MOVG E-SE ACROSS MN. AS THIS SYSTEM CONTINUES E-SE EARLY THIS MORNING LLJ WILL VEER FROM SSW-WSW, AIDING MORE SEWD PROGRESSION OF STORMS TO OUR NW. SFC INSTABILITY AXIS LIES FM AROUND JVL-IND AND THIS WILL PRBLY BE WHERE THE STRONGEST TSTMS WITH HEAVIEST RAIN OCCURS. HWVR, NUMEROUS TSTMS EXTEND AS FAR NE AS MTW AND THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD ALSO PROPAGATE SEWD TODAY. IF PORTIONS OF CWA ARE MISSED BY THIS MORNING STORMS (MOST LIKELY IN THE EAST) AIRMASS WILL BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE DURING THE DAY AS MOISTURE WILL FEED NE AHEAD OF THE FRONT, SO EXPECTING AS SHRTWV/FRONT APPROACHES THIS AFTN/EVE TSTMS WILL STILL DEVELOP IN THIS AREA. THUS, RAISED POPS TO LIKELY OVER MOST OF THE CWA TODAY AND CONTINUED WITH MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN. POTENTIAL FOR SOME SVR STORMS AS WELL BUT GIVEN THAT AIRMASS IN OUR AREA THIS MORNING IS NOT AS UNSTABLE AS THAT TO OUR NW, EXPECT SOME WKNG TO THE SVR STORMS MOVG SE ACROSS WI EARLY THIS MORNING, SO FOR NOW WILL HOLD OFF ON ADDING SVR MENTION TO ZFP/GRIDS. EXPECTED CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER FROM MORNING MCS, LOWERED HIGH TEMPS TODAY ABOUT A CATEGORY FROM PREVIOUS FCST, BUT GIVEN POTENTIAL FOR DRY AND SOME SUNNY PERIODS BELIEVE MAV MAXES TOO LOW. CDFNT SHOULD MOVE SE ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT. AIRMASS MAY BE STABILIZED BY CONVECTION TODAY, SO QUESTIONABLE HOW ACTIVE IT WILL BE ALONG FRONT TONIGHT. FOR NOW STUCK WITH PREVIOUS CHC TRW WITH HIGHEST POPS SE WHERE FROPA WILL BE LATEST. LONG TERM... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ONLY MINOR CHANGES MADE TO LONG TERM GRIDS. REGION WILL BE IN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH THROUGH A GOOD CHUNK OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS IN CONTROL TO THE EAST AND ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL HIGH SETTLES OVER THE SW US. THE RESULT WILL BE A RETURN TO AOB NORMAL TEMPS AND DRIER CONDITIONS. MODELS STILL TRY TO BRING A WEAK SYSTEM IN LATE SUN INTO MONDAY...BUT CONFIDENCE LOW ON HOW FAR INTO THE AREA IT WILL MAKE IT...PLUS LACK OF DEEP MSTR AND GOOD CONVERGENCE WITH THE FEATURE. PREVIOUS SHIFT REMOVED POPS AND WILL HOLD THAT TRACK FOR NOW. OTHERWISE...MODERATING TEMPS EXPECTED INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK AS THE WESTERN RIDGE SLOWLY EDGES EAST...ALLOWING FOR THE TROUGH TO FLATTEN OUT. NO SIGNS OF A SIGNIFICANT WARM UP AT THIS TIME. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && AVIATION...HICKMAN SHORT TERM/UPDATE...JT LONG TERM...FISHER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 518 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-210930- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN- MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN- CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE- HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES... BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON... ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA... PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 418 AM CDT THU JUL 20 2006 /518 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING. THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. MORE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS MORNING AND POSSIBLY AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-210930- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- MICHIGAN CITY IN TO ST JOSEPH MI OUT TO MID LAKE- 518 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN EARLY THIS MORNING. THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY STRONG WINDS AND HIGH WAVES. MORE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WAVES WILL BUILD TO 3 TO 5 FEET AS NORTH WINDS INCREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 3 TO 5 FOOT WAVES WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY EVENING. THIS WILL RESULT IN A CONTINUED INCREASE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH FRIDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
744 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006
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0700 AM TSTM WND DMG 3 SW LA PORTE 41.58N 86.76W
07/20/2006 LA PORTE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE FELL ACROSS POWER LINES.
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EBREONThe Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:58 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell onto power lines.
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