Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 5:51 PM EST for Allen County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 min. 12 reports 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, 5:51 PM EST (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 6:40 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:58 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellison, IN | 1 1/2 foot diameter trees down. |
| May 9, 6:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Craigville, IN | |
| May 9, 6:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntertown, IN | Numerous trees and power lines down within a 5 by 6 block area on the western side of Huntertown. Several buildings damaged...including two businesses and one home which were destroyed. An additional 21 homes sustained minor to moderate damage. State of emerg |
| May 9, 6:01 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Aboite, IN | 18 inch diameter tree down and 8 inch limbs down. |
| May 9, 6:05 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Huntertown, IN | |
| May 9, 6:06 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown, IN | Large limbs down near Georgetown Shopping Center. |
| May 9, 6:09 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Ft Wayne, IN | |
| May 9, 6:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ft Wayne, IN | Numerous large trees and power lines blown down across town. The high winds destroyed the Builder's Square building which was under construction. A house along Wildwood avenue was heavily damaged when a large tree fell onto it and injured 6 people inside. Sev |
| May 9, 6:11 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | New Haven, IN | |
| May 9, 6:12 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Zanesville, IN | 18-24 inch diameter tree down on house |
| May 9, 6:22 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Zanesville, IN | Greenhouse with aluminum frame heavily damaged. 2-3 ft diameter tree down on house. Structural damage. |
| May 9, 6:41 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ft Wayne, IN | Telephone pole snapped. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 9, 3:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 092253 SVRFWA INC003-179-092340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 551 PM EST TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA WELLS COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 640 PM EST * AT 542 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF HUNTERTOWN TO 17 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARKLE. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... BLUFFTON MARKLE OSSIAN HUNTERTOWN FORT WAYNE NEW HAVEN GRABILL WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS! 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 35 min |
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 35 min |
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke | 55 min |
| May 9, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 28 min |
| May 9, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 28 min |
| May 9, 12:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 34 min |
| May 9, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 35 min |
| May 9, 1:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 27 min |
| May 9, 6:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 29 min |
| May 9, 6:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Wells | 27 min |
| May 9, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 47 min |
| May 9, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 18 min |
| May 9, 4:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Whitley | 44 min |
| May 9, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 9, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 29 min |
| May 9, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 28 min |
| May 9, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 32 min |
| May 9, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 30 min |
| May 9, 5:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 27 min |
| May 9, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 38 min |
| May 9, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 45 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.