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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

July 27, 1997Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1997, 2:17 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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 27, 1997, 2:17 PM EST (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1997, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Allen 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 27, 11:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 2569 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 271917 RRA
TORFWA
INC003-272000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
217 PM EST SUN JUL 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
 
   ...ALLEN COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR ARCOLA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THE TORNADO WARNING WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST.
 
PEOPLE IN FORT WAYNE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FROM THIS DANGEROUS
STORM.
HAYES
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
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.
 
 
 
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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 26, 9:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	62 min
Jul 26, 10:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	50 min
Jul 27, 1:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	45 min
Jul 27, 1:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble	31 min
Jul 27, 2:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Whitley	40 min
Jul 27, 2:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	59 min
Jul 27, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	56 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.