Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Northern Indiana

Issued

Aug 6, 2000, 6:31 PM EST (23:31 UTC)

Expired

Aug 6, 2000, 7:20 PM EST

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Northern Indiana

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saint Joseph County, IN

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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.

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.

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 062331
SVRFWA
INC141-070020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
631 PM EST SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ST. JOSEPH COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 720 PM EST

* AT 631 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF NORTH LIBERTY...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  SOUTH BEND
  ROSELAND
  INDIAN VILLAGE
  MISHAWAKA
  GEORGETOWN

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 
SEEK SHELTEpR 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 4162 8666 4150 8649 4155 8607 4178 8607

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 6, 1:45 PM EST, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
145 PM EST SUN AUG 6 2000

17Z SURFACE MAP SHOWED A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTHWEST
MISSOURI NORTHEAST THROUGH EASTERN IOWA AND SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN.
A WARM AND VERY HUMID AIR MASS IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE ACROSS THE
CWA. LATEST SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWED THE BACK EDGE OF CLOUDS OVER
NORTHWEST INDIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. AT 17Z...IWX
RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS EAST OF LINE FROM LOGANSPORT TO
COLDWATER MICHIGAN MOVING EAST AND WEAKENING.

SPC HAS PUT PART OF NORTHERN INDIANA IN A MODERATE RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE REST OF THE AREA OUTLOOKED FOR A
SLIGHT RISK. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO STRONG INSTABILITY AND
THE APPROACH OF THE COLD FRONT. MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN MOVING THE
COLD FRONT THROUGH THE FA LATE TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BREAK OUT AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
TONIGHT WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE.

THE AIR BEHIND THE FRONT IS JUST A LITTLE DRIER BUT NOT MUCH COOLER.
MONDAY LOOKS TO BE DRY...BUT THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
NORTH AS A WARM FRONT MONDAY NIGHT IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACH OF THE
NEXT SHORT WAVE PRESENTLY OVER SOUTHWEST CANADA. GENERALLY ZONAL
FLOW CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE WEEK MOVING SHORT
WAVES THROUGH THE FA. THIS WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST INTO FRIDAY WHEN A SLIGHTLY COOLER AND
DRIER AIRMASS MOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST.

PREFERED WARMER FWC OVER FAN NUMBERS WITH LITTLE DRIER BUT NOT MUCH
TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN AIR MASS MOVING IN BEHIND THE FRONT AND
MORE SUN EXPECTED MONDAY. MISFWA AVAILABLE.

.IWX...NONE.

GLL

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.