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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2000, 3:33 PM EST for Blackford County, Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2000, 3:33 PM EST (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2000, 4:20 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 3:38 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Van Buren, IN | Power lines downed. |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 202034 SVRFWA INC009-053-202120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 333 PM EST WED SEP 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLACKFORD COUNTY IN INDIANA EASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 420 PM EST * AT 333 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FAIRMOUNT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... UPLAND SHAMROCK LAKES VAN BUREN HARTFORD CITY MONTPELIER WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM! 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 Sep 20, 2:19 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 2:19 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 219 PM EST WED SEP 20 2000 FCST PROBLEM IS WITH PCPN AND SVR THIS EVENING...THEN RAIN CHANCES AGAIN FRI AND OVER WEEKEND. MODELS IN GD AGREEMENT IN SHORT TERM BUT REALLY START TO DIVERGE LATER PDS. GENERALLY FOLLOWED ETA/AVN BLEND. TSRA DEVELOPING ALONG CDFNT ON A LINE FROM KCGI TO KLAF TO KJXN. STRONG WIND FIELD IN PLACE AND SVR WIND THREAT POSSIBLE AS STORMS INTERACT WITH H8 WINDS OF 50 KTS AND H5 WINDS OF 70KTS PER WOLCOTT PROFILER. FNT TO BEGIN EASTWARD MOVEMENT AS S/W IN SW IA MOVES EAST AND KICKS UPPER TROF EAST. INSTABILITY THIS AFTN EAST HAS APCHD 2000 J/KG FROM SATELLITE DERIVED SOUNDINGS. HIGHER THETA E AIR HAS ADVECTED INTO AREA FROM SOUTH AND SFC DWPTS INTO MIDDLE 60S WITH LOWER 80 AIR TEMPS. THIS AREA UNDER MODERATE RISK AND THIS STILL LOOKS GD GIVEN LATEST DEVELOPMENT. POST FNTL PCPN IN IL SHLD ALSO BEGIN AN EASTWARD PUSH SO WL HAVE HIGH POPS MOST AREAS THIS EVENING...ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST OVERNIGHT. HIGH MOVES IN BEHIND FNT LATE TNGT AND THU. DRIER AIR AND SUBSIDENCE TO CLEAR SKIES OUT. CU RULES SHOWING BKN MAINLY EAST. WL GENERALLY GO FOR PARTLY CLOUDY THU. NEXT SYSTEM QUICKLY APCHS FOR FRI AND WEEKEND. WMFNT DEVELOPING FRI WITH IMPRESSIVE THETA E ADVECTION AND H8 DWPTS CLIMBING QUICKLY. ETA/AVN DIFFER IN BEST OMEGA PLACEMENT...BUT BOTH DO GIVE NW AREA A SHOT AT SOME LIFT. WL ADD A CHC FOR FRI WITH THIS WAA PATTERN. GENERALLY FOLLOWED MRF FOR WEEKEND AND MONDAY. CONCERN IS THAT DIGGING SYSTEM TO WEST WL DELAY ARRIVAL OF SFC FNT AND COLDER AIR. HOWEVER...MRF INDICATES STRONGEST WINDS ROUNDING BASE OF CLOSED LOW AND THIS SHLD HELP LIFT SYSTEM OUT OF WEST SATURDAY AND PUSH FNT ACRS OUR AREA SUN INTO MON WITH ANOTHER SHOT OF COLDER CANADIAN AIR. .IWX...NONE. LASHLEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 12:02 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-210000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1202 PM EST WED SEP 20 2000 ...A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST OHIO...AND A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA...A SMALL PART OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN... AND THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST OHIO... A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS VAN WERT...ALLEN...PUTNAM AND HENRY COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING...EAST OF A LINE FROM LOGANSPORT INDIANA TO WARSAW...ELKHART...AND THREE RIVERS MICHIGAN. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST OHIO. A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER INDIANA AND MICHIGAN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FAVORABLE WIND FIELDS AND INSTABILITY ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALLOW SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LASHLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 3:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wells | 48 min |
| Sep 20, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 53 min |
| Sep 20, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.