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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

June 23, 1994Jay County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1994, 3:22 PM EST for Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1994, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1994, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Jay County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 23, 3:30 PM EST	Tornado F0	Salamonia, IN	The tornado was very small, and touched down briefly in an open field just west of Salamonia producing minor crop damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 232023
TORFWA
INC075-232045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
322 PM EST THU JUN 23 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN JAY COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM EST A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MARION INDIANA NEAR SALAMONIE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA.
 
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
PERSONS TO THE EAST OF SALMONIE SHOULD SEEK COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.t
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
MARSHALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Jay	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.