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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 8:39 PM EST for Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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 18, 2000, 8:39 PM EST (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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, 9:25 PM EST | Hail 1 | Peru, 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
718 WUUS53 KIWX 190140 SVRFWA INC103-169-190230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 839 PM EST THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN INDIANA NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 930 PM EST * AT 830 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... NORTH MANCHESTER STOCKDALE A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW 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 18, 7:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 56 min |
| May 18, 7:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 61 min |
| May 18, 7:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 61 min |
| May 18, 8:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 39 min |
| May 18, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 50 min |
| May 18, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 29 min |
| May 18, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 30 min |
| May 18, 10:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 33 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.