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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 2000Paulding County, Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 6:52 PM EDT for Paulding County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min. 4 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, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 7:50 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 92 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, 7:00 PM EDT	Hail 1	Van Wert, OH
May 9, 7:21 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Antwerp, OH	Large tree limbs down.
May 9, 7:40 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Convoy, OH
May 9, 7:41 PM EDT	Hail 1	Van Wert, OH

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, 4:45 PM EDT	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 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 092254
SVRFWA
OHC125-161-092350-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAULDING COUNTY IN OHIO
  NORTHERN VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 750 PM EDT

* AT 542 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WREN...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  CONVOY
  VAN WERT
  MIDDLE POINT
  PAYNE
  SCOTT
  HAVILAND
  ANTWERP
  LATTY
  GROVER HILL
  BROUGHTON

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND STRONG 
WINDS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. 

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 4089 8500 4076 8483 4086 8437 4120 8442
          4126 8475

NNNN

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 May 9, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
215 PM EST TUE MAY 9 2000

MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT TONIGHT...WITH ETA PERHAPS
BEST WITH PLACEMENT OF SURFACE FEATURES.

5H VORT MOVES FROM KS THIS AFTERNOON TO SC IL BY 06Z WED AND TO
IN/OH BORDER BY 12Z...AS SFC LOW OVER C IL MOVES TO LE BY 06Z AND LO
BY 12Z...ALLOWING SFC COLD FRONT TO EXIT MY CWA AROUND DAWN
WEDNESDAY.

TONIGHT NORTH AND NORTHEAST PARTS OF CWA HAVE BEST MOISTURE...LIFT...
AND THETA E ADV. PWATS ARE 1.5 TO 1.6 WITH QPFS OF ABOUT AN INCH
OVERNIGHT. HEAVY RAIN WILL UNDOUBTEDLY FALL...BUT AM ON THE FENCE
ABOUT NECESSITY OF FFA. WHILE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORIES MAY
BE REQUIRED LATER WITH THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS...THINK FFA CAN BE
DROPPED DUE TO DRY GROUND AND LACK OF HEAVY RAINFALL LAST
NIGHT/TODAY. FFG VALUES ARE 3.5 TO 4 INCHES PER SIX HOURS IN CENTRAL
AND EAST COUNTIES...2.5 TO 3 INCHES IN THE NORTHWEST.

SPC CURRENTLY MONITORING WESTERN CWA FOR WW. WILL MENTION
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IN ZONES ATTM...WILL MAKE APPROPRIATE
WORDING/HEADLINE CHANGES IF/WHEN WW IS ISSUED.

WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE WILL KEEP CLOUDS IN THE EAST IN THE MORNING...
BUT OTHERWISE DRY AIR AND SUBSIDENCE WILL MAKE FOR A BEAUTIFUL DAY.

WILL KEEP POPS IN WESTERN COUNTIES ON THURSDAY BUT WILL KEEP THEM
LOW. AVN IS PROGGING A STRONG CAP WITH LITTLE UPPER SUPPORT AND NOT
ALL THAT MUCH MOISTURE. MAIN SHOW WILL BE CLOSER TO THE SYSTEM WELL
WEST OF HERE.

IN THE EXTENDED WILL BUMP SATURDAYS SHOWERS UP TO FRIDAY AND WILL
KEEP WEEKEND DRY AS RIDGE BUILDS IN.

TEMPS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AND WILL FOLLOW.

TKS TO DTX FOR COORD.

.IWX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTIES.

REAUGH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 6:08 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
508 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0503 PM    LARWILL                   IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

Local storm report, May 9, 6:11 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
511 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION...Q.

0507 PM    LOGANSPORT                IN   DOWNED POWER LINES
05/09/00   CASS                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

N

Local storm report, May 9, 6:22 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
522 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION...q.

0520 PM    WARSAW                    IN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   KOSCIUSKO                      REPORTED BY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

N

Local storm report, May 9, 6:34 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
534 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0511 PM    LORANE                    IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0511 PM    SOUTH WHITLEY             IN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0511 PM    ALBION                    IN   1 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   NOBLE                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0530 PM    NORTH MANCHESTER          IN   TREES DOWN
05/09/00   WABASH                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0515 PM    WOLFLAKE                  IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   NOBLE                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0530 PM    NORTH MANCHESTER          IN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   WABASH                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

N

Local storm report, May 9, 6:42 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
542 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0516 PM    6 N THREE RIVERS          MI   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   ST.JOSEPH

N

Local storm report, May 9, 6:52 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
552 PM EST TUE MAY 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   NOBLE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	38 min
May 9, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	34 min
May 9, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	32 min
May 9, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Williams	39 min
May 9, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	55 min
May 9, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam, Van Wert	62 min
May 9, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	62 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.