Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 5:21 AM EST for Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2000, 5:21 AM EST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 5:50 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:24 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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 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 201022 SVRFWA INC039-085-201050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 521 AM EST THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELKHART COUNTY IN INDIANA NORTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 550 AM EST * AT 514 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ETNA GREEN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF BREMEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... LEESBURG NAPPANEE MILFORD WAKARUSA NORTH WEBSTER SYRACUSE NEW PARIS GOSHEN MILLERSBURG MIDDLEBURY 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. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 4:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 10:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 57 min |
| Apr 20, 11:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 11:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 11:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 11:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 11:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 11:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 12:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 12:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 33 min |
| Apr 20, 12:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble, Whitley | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 1:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.