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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Northern Indiana

August 5, 2000Pulaski County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2000, 10:28 PM EST for Pulaski County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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: Aug 5, 2000, 10:28 PM EST (03:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2000, 11:10 PM EST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 747 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 660 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 873 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.2

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The text

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

023 
WUUS53 KIWX 060330
SVRFWA
INC131-060410-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1028 PM EST SAT AUG 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 1110 PM EST

* AT 1028 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEDARYVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  MEDARVILLE
  DENHAM
  BEARDSTOWN
  RIPLEY
  WINAMAC
  MONTEREY

SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.

ONE INCH SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS 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.

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 Aug 5, 1:44 PM EST, 8 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:44 PM EST, 8 hours 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
144 PM EST SAT AUG 5 2000

AREA OF SHWRS AND TSTMS WORKING INTO WRN CWA AS WARM ADVECTION HAS
BEEN ABLE TO OVERCOME DRY LLVLS. THIS SHOULD MOSTLY WORK OUT OF WRN
CWA BY MDNT AND LIKELY STRENGTHEN/REDEVELOP OVER EAST SO CAT POPS. ON
SUNDAY MUCH DEPENDS ON WHERE BOUNDARY LAYS OUT TNGT BEHIND MCS AND
WHERE AND WHEN FRONT FIRES. WILL BE PLENTY OF INSTABILITY
SUNDAY COMBINED WITH SHRTWV MOVING ACROSS NORTH BUT CAPPING
WILL BE PRESENT. WILL KEEP HIGH CHC POPS NW AND GO LIKELY E
WHERE BETTER CHANCE OF CAP BREAKING. SVR POTENTIAL ON SUNDAY AND
WILL ISSUE SPS. MDLS DIFFER ON HOW FAR SOUTH FRONT WILL SAG SUNDAY
NIGHT AND MONDAY AS UPPER FLOW GOES ZONAL. AVN WANTS TO
FIRE ANOTHER MCS SUNDAY NITE. THIS MAY BE SOUTH OF AREA BUT NOT
CLEAR CUT ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT POPS. MONDAY ANOTHER SHRTWV
SLIDES IN AND AGAIN WILL LEAVE CHC POPS. BLENDED FWC/FAN WITH
RANGES FOR TMPS. MISFWA AVAILABLE.

.IWX...NONE.

RES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 11:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	36 min
Aug 5, 11:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	63 min
Aug 6, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble	49 min
Aug 6, 5:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	46 min
Aug 6, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	45 min
Aug 6, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Starke	38 min
Aug 6, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	53 min
Aug 6, 6:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	37 min
Aug 6, 6:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb	46 min
Aug 6, 6:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Marshall	45 min
Aug 6, 6:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	53 min
Aug 6, 6:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	49 min
Aug 6, 6:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	53 min
Aug 6, 6:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	47 min
Aug 6, 6:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami	53 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	51 min
Aug 6, 6:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble, Whitley	67 min
Aug 6, 6:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.