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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Northern Indiana

August 6, 2000Huntington County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 7:16 PM EST for Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 64 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 6, 2000, 7:16 PM EST (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 8:20 PM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Huntington County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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.

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, 5:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 1953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 14.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 070018
SVRFWA
INC003-033-069-070120-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA
  DE KALB COUNTY IN INDIANA
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 820 PM EST

* AT 716 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ALBION
  TO 13 MILES WEST OF HUNTERTOWN TO 15 MILES WEST OF                 
  ANDREWS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...  
  ANDREWS
  GARRETT
  HUNTERTOWN
  AUBURN
  ASHLEY
  HUNTINGTON
  ROANOKE
  WATERLOO
  FORT WAYNE

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE 
STORMS! 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 6, 1:45 PM EST, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 1:45 PM EST, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 7:10 PM EST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
710 PM EST SUN AUG 06 2000

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

0540 PM    ROME CITY                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/06/00   NOBLE                          LARGE TREES DOWN. LARGE
                                          SHED DESTROYED.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0610 PM    STARKE CO ARPT            IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/06/00   STARKE                         TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0616 PM    LA PORTE                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/06/00   LAPORTE                        TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0619 PM    4 W PLYMOUTH              IN   50 MPH TSTM GUST
08/06/00   MARSHALL                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0620 PM    5 N GOSHEN                IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/06/00   ELKHART                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0640 PM    STEVENSVILLE              MI   WIND DAMAGE
08/06/00   BERRIEN                        LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0647 PM    NAPPANEE                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/06/00   ELKHART                        LARGE TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

N

Local storm report, Aug 6, 7:15 PM EST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
715 PM EST SUN AUG 06 2000

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

0655 PM    4 N EDON                  OH   FUNNEL CLOUD
08/06/00   WILLIAMS                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 7:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Steuben	49 min
Aug 6, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	64 min
Aug 6, 7:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wells	41 min

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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.