Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 10:17 PM EST for Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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 18, 2000, 10:17 PM EST (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 10:50 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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 18, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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.
199 WUUS53 KIWX 190318 SVRFWA INC179-190350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1017 PM EST THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WELLS COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 1050 PM EST(1150 PM EDT) * AT 1015 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BLUFFTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... BLUFFTON 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. LAT...LON 4093 8532 4059 8533 4061 8509 4095 8508 SLL/RS 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, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 51 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 |
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.