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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 7:11 PM EDT for Defiance County, Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2000, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Defiance County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.
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, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KIWX 092313
SVRFWA
OHC039-171-092350-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
711 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DEFIANCE COUNTY IN OHIO
WILLIAMS COUNTY IN OHIO
* UNTIL 750 PM EDT(650 PM EST)
* AT 602 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
LAGRANGE TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALLVILLE TO 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
HICKSVILLE
EDGERTON
MONTPELIER
BRYAN
STRYKER
DEFIANCE
WEST UNITY
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE
STORMS! SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENUT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.
LAT...LON 4172 8500 4137 8488 4123 8483 4111 8451
4115 8426 4135 8430 4171 8442
NNNNThe 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, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding, Van Wert | 58 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.