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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 2000Miami County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 5:09 PM EST for Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 min. 5 reports 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, 5:09 PM EST (22:09 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 6:00 PM EST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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, 5:15 PM ESTThunderstorm WindElkhart, INRoof damage. Tree fell on car. Many trees and power lines down.
May 9, 5:18 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 73 EElkhart, IN
May 9, 5:20 PM ESTHail 0.75Warsaw, IN
May 9, 5:30 PM ESTThunderstorm WindWakarusa, IN80-foot pine downed. Numerous power lines and trees downed.
May 9, 5:40 PM ESTThunderstorm WindPeru, INConstruction trailer overturned and 6 inch tree limbs down.

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 256 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 092211
SVRFWA
INC039-085-103-092300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELKHART COUNTY IN INDIANA
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA
  MIAMI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 603 PM EDT(503 PM EST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING    
  FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF      
  BREMEN TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LOGANSPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
  GRISSOM AFB
  
  SIMONTON LAKE
  WAKARUSA
  ELKHART
  ETNA GREEN
  MENTONE
  NAPPANEE
  DUNLAP
  PERU
  

THIS IS A DANGEROUS 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 4177 8598 4129 8610 4049 8626 4073 8590
          4153 8573 4201 8561

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, 4:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph35 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.