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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 2:24 PM EST for Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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 18, 2000, 2:24 PM EST (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 3:10 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 18, 2:28 PM EST | Hail 1 | Gas City, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 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 181926 SVRFWA INC053-182010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 224 PM EST THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 310 PM EST * AT 223 PM EST...SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR SWAYZEE...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... SWAYZEE FAIRMOUNT SWEETSER JONESBORO GAS CITY MARION UPLAND VAN BUREN DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM! SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDUIANA. LAT...LON 4064 8587 4040 8592 4041 8544 4067 8546 LASHLEY NNNN
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.