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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Northern Indiana

June 13, 2000Elkhart County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 10:48 AM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 13, 2000, 10:48 AM EST (15:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 11:40 AM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Elkhart County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 10:51 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Mishawaka, IN	North side of town.
Jun 13, 11:00 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mishawaka, IN	Trees down.

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 131552
SVRFWA
INC039-131640-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1048 AM EST TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELKHART COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 1140 AM EST

* AT 1048 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAKARUSA...OR ABOUT 2
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...  
  
  ELKHART
  BRISTOL
  DUNLAP
  GOSHEN
  MIDDLEBURY
  MILLERSBURG

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.

LAT...LON 4175 8631 4156 8632 4148 8587 4153 8559
          4176 8560

JLA

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 10:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	38 min
Jun 13, 1:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	47 min
Jun 13, 1:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	45 min
Jun 13, 2:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington	48 min
Jun 13, 3:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	51 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.