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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Northern Indiana

August 26, 2000DeKalb County, Indiana; Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 8:34 PM EST for DeKalb County, Indiana; Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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
Aug 26, 2000, 8:34 PM EST (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2000, 9:30 PM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties DeKalb County, IN, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2000-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 404 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2000-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 270134
SVRFWA
INC033-OHC171-270230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
834 PM EST SAT AUG 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DE KALB COUNTY IN INDIANA
  SOUTHERN WILLIAMS COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 930 PM EST(1030 PM EDT)

* AT 834 PM EST(934 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 3 MILES EAST OF WEST UNITY TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORUNNA...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
  CORUNNA
  WATERLOO
  BRYAN
  BUTLER
  AUBURN
  EDGERTON
  ST. JOE

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO YTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4162 8432 4154 8539 4125 8486 4144 8458

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSteuben48 min
Aug 26, 8:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.