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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 2000Saint Joseph County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 4:55 PM EST for Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 2000, 4:55 PM EST (21:55 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 5:30 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saint Joseph County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5:00 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 57 ENorth Liberty, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 9, 2:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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 2000-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -452 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-353 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-452 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-893 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 092156
SVRFWA
INC141-092230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ST. JOSEPH COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 447 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH LIBERTY...OR      
  ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35    
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  LAKEVILLE
  GULIVOIRE PARK
  SOUTH BEND
  INDIAN VILLAGE
  MISHAWAKA
  OSCEOLA
  GRANGER

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.

LAT...LON 4161 8650 4145 8640 4157 8597 4177 8610

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, 6:01 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash29 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, 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

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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.