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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 2000Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 6:01 AM EST for Huntington County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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
May 9, 2000, 6:01 AM EST (11:01 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 6:30 AM EST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Huntington County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 9, 6:15 AM ESTHail 0.75La Fontaine, IN

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 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 811 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-371 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 091103
SVRFWA
INC069-169-091130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
601 AM EST TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 630 AM EST

* AT 557 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF LA FONTAINE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTH OF WABASH...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  SOMERSET
  LA FONTAINE  
  MOUNT ETNA
  HUNTINGTON
  WARREN
  ROANOKE
  MISSISSINEWA AND SALAMONIE LAKE AREAS

ONE INCH SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS 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.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 11:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski, Starke35 min
May 8, 11:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte35 min
May 8, 11:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Pulaski, Starke55 min
May 9, 12:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Marshall28 min
May 9, 12:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph28 min
May 9, 12:36 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhite34 min
May 9, 12:45 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko35 min
May 9, 1:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange27 min
May 9, 6:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Wells27 min
May 9, 3:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski, White50 min
May 9, 4:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall, Starke47 min
May 9, 4:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash18 min
May 9, 4:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Whitley44 min
May 9, 4:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Fulton31 min
May 9, 4:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph35 min
May 9, 5:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMiami51 min
May 9, 5:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, Kosciusko51 min
May 9, 5:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble35 min
May 9, 5:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash29 min
May 9, 5:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Whitley28 min
May 9, 5:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams32 min
May 9, 5:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange30 min
May 9, 5:43 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben27 min
May 9, 5:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Wells49 min
May 9, 6:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb, Steuben38 min
May 9, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams45 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.