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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 5:35 PM EST for Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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 31, 2000, 5:35 PM EST (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 6:10 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jay County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 31, 5:54 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Portland, IN | Tree down on a car. |
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 31, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 312237 SVRFWA INC075-312310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 535 PM EST WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JAY COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 610 PM EST * AT 535 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF PENNVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF HARTFORD CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... PENNVILLE BRYANT PORTLAND SALAMONIA REDKEY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 49 min |
| May 31, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 47 min |
| May 31, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.