Very unstable conditions, fast moving westerly flow, and an approaching short wave all contributed to a line of strong to severe thunderstorms. The southern part of this line extended into extreme southwestern Indiana where some wind damage was reported.
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The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
Very unstable conditions, fast moving westerly flow, and an approaching short wave all contributed to a line of strong to severe thunderstorms. The southern part of this line extended into extreme southwestern Indiana where some wind damage was reported.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 8, 2:36 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 336 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 ...SEVERE STORMS IMMINENT... .NEAR TERM... STG INSTABILITY/HIGH SFC THETA-E AIRMASS HAD DVLPD AHD OF DEEP COLD POOL AND FORCED LINE OF CONVN MOVING OUT OF NE IL/LK MI. GREATEST THREAT SHRT TERM FOR DAMAGING WINDS/BRIEF TORNADOES LAYS NW OF A KNOX TO COLDWATER LINE W/ACCELERATING BOW ECHO AND WHICH SHLD SPREAD SEWD W/TIME. WILL DO LOCAL WATCH EXTENSION TO ALG HIGHWAY 30 COMMENSURATE W/EARLY ZONE UPDATE TO CVR SITU. SECONDARY CONCERNS LIE W/MBE ALG SWRN FLANK OF COLD POOL AND POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN EVENT THIS EVENING W/STG LLJ ORIENTED UPSTREAM AND ADVT FLW OF HIGH THETA-E OVERTOP SWRN FLANK OF COLD POOL. && .SHORT TERM... DEEP WRN TROUGH AND ASSOCD SFC FNTL ZONE WILL SHIFT EWD INTO MON. CLD DEBRIS AND WHERE UPSTREAM MCS/S DVLP OVERNIGHT WILL DICTATE POTENTIAL SVR CONVN MON AFTN BUT WILL CONT W/HIGH CHC POPS IN THE AFTN FOR THUNDER IN THE LEAST AND LIKELY MON NIGHT. TEMPS DIFFICULT BUT WOULD APPEAR ANOTHER VRY WARM DAY IN STORE ESP EAST HALF MONDAY. && .LONG TERM... TUESDAY CWA STILL FEELING TRAILING EFFECTS OF FRONTAL BNDRY PUSHING ACROSS THE STATE WITH NAM/GFS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN 12Z RUN ON TIMING AND CLEARING FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH MIDDAY. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CLEARS THE REGION BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...TRENDED TUESDAY POPS LOWER IN WESTERN COUNTIES BUT HELD ON TO CHC POPS EVERYWHERE DESPITE CURRENT MODEL AGREEMENT AS PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS HAD SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WITH THE TIMING OF FRONT CLEARING THE CWA. GOING TEMPS STILL WARMER THAN MODEL GUIDANCE WHICH IS ONCE TRENDING COOLER/DRIER BEHIND THIS FRONT. UPPER RIDGE QUICKLY RETURNS AS LARGE TROUGH DIGS OVER WESTERN CONUS. GOOD WARM AIR RETURN ON THURSDAY AS BNDRY WORKS ITS WAY BACK NORTH AHEAD OF THE NEXT FRONT PUSHING ACROSS THE PLAINS. UPPER LVL TROUGH STAYS PROGRESSIVE AND MOVES EAST FLATTENING THE RIDGE AND DRAGGING A SFC FRONT THROUGH ON FRI-SAT WITH ATTENDANT CHANCES FOR CONVECTION. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDS XPCD THROUGH THE PD. HWVR REINTENSIFYING MCS ACRS IA POSES CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY FOR THIS AFTN ESP IN LIGHT OF DECAYED OVERNIGHT MCS IN MI WHICH HAS LAID OUT A DISTINCT OUTFLW BNDRY THROUGH NRN IN. WK BUT BUOYANT LL ASCENT PER WLCI3 PROFILER STILL PROMOTING A FEW SHRA ACRS NW IN AND NE IL BUT ON THE WANE ATTM. WOULD XPC INCREASING LARGE SCALE ASCENT TO FOCUS N OF STATIONARY OUTFLW BNDRY AHD OF EWD PROPAGATING IA MCV OVR NW IN/SW MI BY AFTN W/PD OF TSRA LIKELY AT KSBN. KFWA ON THE OTHER HAND SHLD REMAIN DRY W/MID LVL RIDGING STILL INHIBITING DVLPMNT THERE. SHLD PROVE INTERESTING IN THE LEAST. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 1 AM EDT MONDAY FOR LMZ043-046. && SHORT TERM...HOLSTEN LONG TERM...LUDINGTON AVIATION...HOLSTEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 349 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 INZ003>009-012>016-020-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-092000- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITE-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS- 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...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...NILES...BENTON HARBOR... ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS... THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...MONTPELIER 349 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 /249 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...ARE LIKELY FROM EARLY AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...WITH A RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM WINIMAC TO AUBURN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS ON MONDAY WITH DAMAGING WIND THE PRIMARY THREAT. HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS MONDAY INTO TUESDAY ARE POSSIBLE...RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY MONDAY NIGHT. STORM RUNOFF COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL STREAMS AND BASEMENTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. IT REMAINS TOO EARLY TO ASCERTAIN THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ017-018-022>027-032>034-OHZ002-004-005-015-016-024-025-092000- WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT- BLACKFORD-JAY-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT- ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY... FORT WAYNE...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER... HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD... DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA... VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 349 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WITH AN ISOLATED RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM LOGANSPORT TO DEFIANCE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS ON MONDAY WITH DAMAGING WIND THE PRIMARY THREAT. HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS MONDAY INTO TUESDAY ARE POSSIBLE...RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY MONDAY NIGHT. STORM RUNOFF COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL STREAMS AND BASEMENTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. IT REMAINS TOO EARLY TO ASCERTAIN THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-092000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 349 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY && 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
331 PM EDT SUN JUN 08 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0321 PM TSTM WND DMG MICHIGAN CITY 41.71N 86.88W
06/08/2008 LA PORTE IN TRAINED SPOTTER
POWER LINES DOWN IN MICHIGAN CITY
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EVENT NUMBER 01425
LMKSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 446 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 INZ004>008-012-014-016-MIZ079>081-082300- ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-STARKE-MARSHALL- KOSCIUSKO-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SOUTH BEND...MISHAWAKA...ELKHART... GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER... KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE 446 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008 /346 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008/ ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... A SLOW MOVING LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING TO THE AREA. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PRECEDING THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS PRODUCING LOW HANGING SCUD CLOUDS. THESE CLOUDS ARE NOT THREATENING...AS THERE IS NO ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM. PERSONS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND ONE INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT REDUCED VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROAD SURFACES. SLOW DOWN AN USE CAUTION. JC
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:56 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines down were reported down in parts of the county, including the Coldwater area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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