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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Northern Indiana

September 11, 2000Paulding County, Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 7:57 PM EDT for Paulding County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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
Sep 11, 2000, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1193 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Sep 11, 3:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 3:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
215 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

LOW PRES OVR SRN MN THIS AFTN WITH STG CDFNT TRAILING SWWD INTO SRN
NEB. TSTMS WHICH DVLPD ALONG THIS SYSTEM'S WARM FRONT LAST NIGHT HAVE
PERSISTED THRU THE DAY...PROPAGATING SLOWLY SE ALONG OUTFLOW BNDRY
INTO UNSTABLE AND WEAKLY CAPPED AMS IN THE WARM SECTOR. MODELS IN GOOD
AGREEMENT ON MOVEMENT OF CDFNT THRU 12Z TUE, THEN ETA SLOWS IT DOWN
A BIT COMPARED TO OTHER MODELS. GIVEN LONGEVITY OF TSTMS TDY, AM
INCLINED TO BELIEVE THEY WL PERSIST ALONG FRONT TOMORROW MORNING
AND KEEP IT MOVG RIGHT ALONG, SO WENT WITH FASTER NGM/AVN. FRONT SHD
MOVE TO FAR NWRN PORTION OF CWA BY 12Z TUE AND EXIT SERN PORTION MID
AFTN. RRQ OF JET AHD OF UPR LVL TROF PROVIDING STRONG UPR LVL DIV FM
NE IA THRU WI THIS AFTN. LINE OF TSTMS BEGINNING TO DVLP IN THIS AREA
ATTM. DIV FCST TO MOVE EAST TNGT TO MI AND NRN IL AND THEN LIFT NE
BY MORNING. WL CONT WITH LIKELY POPS NW AND SCT SE TNGT. GIVEN
E-W ORIENTATION OF LINGERING CONVECTION OVR SRN MI/NRN IL AND HI
PWAT OVR AREA, WL MENTION POTENTIAL FOR HVY RAIN.

CLOUD COVER EXPECTED TO BREAK UP FROM NW-SE BEHIND FRONT TUE AND CLR
OUT TUE NGT. H85 TEMP PROGS AND NWLY FLOW INDICATE CUD BE SOME LAKE
EFFECT CLDS NWRN PORTION TUE NGT SO WL NOT TOTALLY CLEAR IT OUT
THERE. WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE WED AND WAA COMMENCING DURING THE DAY,
SHD BE MOSTLY SUNNY WITH TEMPS WARMING BACK UP TO MID 70S OVR MOST
OF THE AREA. ANOTHER COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE AREA THU.
MRF CONTG TO AMPLIFY UPR AIR PATTERN, DIGGING THIS SYSTEM INTO A
CLOSED UPR LOW OVR THE LWR GRTLKS FRI. WITH CYCLONIC FLOW AND CAA
ALOFT CONTG OVR AREA FRI WL CONT CHC OF SHOWERS INTO FRI WITH AMS
DRYING OUT ON SAT. TEMP GUIDANCE SIMILAR, NO MAJOR CHGS MADE.

.IWX...NONE.

DJT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 11, 6:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
528 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0525 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   MARSHALL                       TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N
Local storm report, Sep 11, 6:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
542 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0420 PM    MILFORD                   IN   .75 INCH HAIL
09/11/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0535 PM    1 S WARSAW                IN   .75 INCH HAIL
N09/11/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

N
Local storm report, Sep 11, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
546 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0255 PM    SHIPSHEWANA               IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   LAGRANGE                       TREE DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

0310 PM    2 E BRIGHTON              IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   LAGRANGE                       POWER LINES DOWNED.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0315 PM    LAGRANGE                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   LAGRANGE                       TREE DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

0345 PM    ANGOLA                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   STEUBEN                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0402 PM    SYRACUSE                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   KOSCIUSKO                      LARGE LIMB DOWNED.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0420 PM    MILFORD                   IN   .75 INCH HAIL
09/11/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0505 PM    3 W PLYMOUTH              IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   MARSHALL                       SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0525 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   MARSHALL                       TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0535 PM    1 S WARSAW                IN   .75 INCH HAIL
09/11/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

N
Local storm report, Sep 11, 7:20 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
620 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0610 PM    COLUMBIA CITY             IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/11/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0610 PM    WABASH                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   WABASH                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N
Local storm report, Sep 11, 7:31 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
631 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0630 PM    COLUMBIA CITY             IN   FLOOD
09/11/00   WHITLEY                        TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL
                                          IN 30 MINUTES. REPORTED
                                          BY RETIRED NWS EMPLOYEE.

N
Local storm report, Sep 11, 7:41 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
641 PM EST MON SEP 11 2000

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

0620 PM    COLUMBIA CITY             IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   WHITLEY                        TREE LIMBS AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0620 PM    COLUMBIA CITY             IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   WHITLEY                        POWER POLE SNAPPED.
                                          REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0630 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   WABASH                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0630 PM    HUNTINGTON                IN   WIND DAMAGE
09/11/00   HUNTINGTON                     1 TREE DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL.9

N

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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.