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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Northern Indiana

June 14, 2000Allen County, Blackford County, Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 5:54 PM EST for Allen County, Blackford County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2000, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 6:40 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Wells County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 5:59 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Wayne, IN	Several trees down.
Jun 14, 6:09 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 51 E	(Fwa)Baer Fld Ft Way, IN
Jun 14, 6:09 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Wayne, IN	Tree down; minor house damage.
Jun 14, 6:12 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Ft Wayne, IN
Jun 14, 6:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Wayne, IN	More than 100 trees downed at Sycamore Hills Golf Club.
Jun 14, 6:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford City, IN	Trees and power lines down.
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bluffton, IN	A new house, which had undergone two months of construction, was destroyed.

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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 12:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 14, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 142256
SVRFWA
INC003-009-179-142340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
554 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA
  BLACKFORD COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WELLS COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 640 PM EST

* AT 554 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST OF FORT WAYNE   
  TO ROCKFORD TO WEST OF HARTFORD CITY....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  FORT WAYNE
  NEW HAVEN
  GRABILL
  BLUFTON
  HARTFORD CITY

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM! SEEK 
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4112 8537 4040 8544 4039 8520 4129 8479

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 2:14 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:14 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
214 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TSTMS SCATTERED ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON WITH MAIN SQUALL LINE
APPROACHING FROM IL WELL AHEAD OF SFC COLD FRONT AND UPPER TROF.
PREFRONTAL ACTIVITY WILL TAKE BULK OF LLVL MOISTURE EAST OF CWA
BY LATE TNGT WITH LEFTOVER CLDS AS FRONT MOVES THRU. IN BETWEEN
SYSTEMS ON THURSDAY WITH LESS HUMID AIRMASS. WARM ADVECTION
THEN STARTS AHEAD OF NEXT SHRTWV THURSDAY NIGHT. TSTMS COULD
MAKE IT INTO WRN CWA LATER THURSDAY NIGHT BUT WILL LEAVE OUT
UNTIL FRIDAY FOR NOW. CAT POPS TNGT THEN TOWARD HIGHER FAN POPS
FRI. OPENED RANGES ON TEMPS BETWEEN FWCS AND FANS. MAV LOOK TOO
WARM FRI. EXTENDED CHC OF SHWRS THRU SUNDAY WITH NEXT FRONT AND
UPPER TROF. WILL GO DRY ON MONDAY FOR NOW.

.IWX...NONE

RES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:59 PM EST, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
459 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    PLYMOUTH                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   MARSHALL                       TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0415 PM    5 S SOUTH BEND            IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   ST.JOSEPH                      TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFF#ICIAL.

0415 PM    LEWISBURG                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   CASS                           TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:10 PM EST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
510 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0502 PM    5 W NORTH MANCHESTER      IN   TORNADO
06/14/00   WABASH                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

N

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:36 PM EST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
536 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0440 PM    ELKHART                   IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   ELKHART                        TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0510 PM    2 S SIDNEY                IN   TORNADO
06/14/00   KOSCIUSKO                      DAMAGE TO MEDOW ACRES
                                          TRAILER PARK. REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

0510 PM    2 S SIDNEY                IN   TORNADO
06/14/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          DAMAGE TO MEADOW ACRES
                                          TRAILER PARK.

0515 PM    LARWILL                   IN   1 INCH HAIL
06/14/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:39 PM EST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
539 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION...T.

0510 PM    3 W COLUMBIA CITY         IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:43 PM EST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
543 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    3 W COLUMBIA CITY         IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

Local storm report, Jun 14, 5:47 PM EST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
547 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    NORTH MANCHESTER, LAKETON IN   TORNADO
06/14/00   WABASH                         SEVERAL HOMES DAMAGED,
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN OVER MUCH OF
                                          NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	49 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	50 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	50 min
Jun 14, 3:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Marshall, Saint Joseph	49 min
Jun 14, 3:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami	49 min
Jun 14, 3:42 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Adams	3 hr
Jun 14, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Wabash	52 min
Jun 14, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko	52 min
Jun 14, 4:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami	31 min
Jun 14, 4:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Wabash	50 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble	46 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Whitley	46 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	31 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Whitley	35 min
Jun 14, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	39 min
Jun 14, 5:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen, Whitley	43 min
Jun 14, 5:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	53 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	50 min
Jun 14, 6:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	40 min
Jun 14, 6:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	40 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.