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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

April 7, 2000Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2000, 2:57 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 2000, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 2000, 3:40 PM EST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 071959
SVRFWA
INC085-072040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
257 PM EST FRI APR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 340 PM EST

* AT 255 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURKET...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  CLAYPOOL
  ETNA GREEN
  WARSAW
  PIERCETON
  LEESBURG
  NORTH WEBSTER
  SYRACUSE
  MILFORD

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DIME-SIZED HAIL.  TAKE SHELTER.

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 4145 8607 4074 8618 4077 8596 4130 8557
          4148 8580

ADOLPHSON
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 2:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton44 min
Apr 7, 3:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble, Whitley29 min
Apr 7, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb45 min

Nearby

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

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.