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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

July 2, 1997Allen County, Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1997, 2:29 PM EST for Allen County, Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 2, 1997, 2:29 PM EST (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1997, 3:15 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Allen County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Wells County, IN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 2, 1:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

629 
WFUS1 KFWA 021932 RRA
TORFWA
INC003-069-179-022015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
229 PM EST WED JUL 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTY...EASTERN HUNTINGTON COUNTY
   ...NORTHWEST WELLS COUNTY
 
AT 225PM EST A TORNADO WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON.
 
THE STORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE MAHON...MARDENIS
ZANESVILLE...AND YODER.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
REAUGH
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble	59 min
Jul 2, 1:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash, Whitley	66 min
Jul 2, 1:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble	34 min
Jul 2, 2:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Huntington, Wells	53 min
Jul 2, 2:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	32 min
Jul 2, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	45 min
Jul 2, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford	45 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.