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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 6:03 PM EST for Pulaski County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 6, 2000, 6:03 PM EST (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 6:40 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pulaski County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Winamac, IN | Trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
439 WUUS53 KIWX 062304 SVRFWA INC131-062340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 603 PM EST SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 640 PM EST * AT 603 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF MEDARYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... PULASKI WINAMAC BEARDSTOWN MEDARYVILLE RIPLEY THIS IS A DANGEROUS 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 4115 8718 4103 8701 4092 8650 4118 8649
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 10:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 42 min |
| 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, 6:14 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.