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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Northern Indiana

June 13, 2000Allen County, Huntington County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 2:42 PM EST for Allen County, Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 13, 2000, 2:42 PM EST (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 3:30 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Allen County, IN, Huntington County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
Jun 13, 3:05 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Roanoke, IN	Tree down and limbs 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 12:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 131949 COR
SVRFWA
INC003-069-132030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
242 PM EST TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 242 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES   
  WEST OF HUNTERTOWN TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUNTINGTON...MOVING     
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
  FORT WAYNE 
  HUNTERTOWN 
  HUNTINGTON
  
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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 1:48 PM EST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:48 PM EST, 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
148 PM EST MON JUN 12 2000

TSTMS MOVG THRU CWFA ATTM. VERY JUICY ATM IS MAKING EXCESSIVE
RAINFALL AS MUCH OF A CONCERN AS SVR WX. TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN
PARTS OF CWFA YESTERDAY PLUS ANOTHER 2+ INCHES IN MY NW COUNTIES
TODAY. AS SUN SETS AND WE SIT BEHIND OUTFLOW PRODUCED BY TODAYS
STORMS HOPEFULLY TSTMS WONT BE TOO STRONG TNGT. HOWEVER SINCE WE
ARE STILL IN WARM UNSTABLE AIR WILL KEEP POPS IN THE FORECAST. WILL
ALSO HAVE TO WATCH BOUNDARY EVIDENT ON VIS SAT COMING OUT OF
S WI.

TOMORROW MAIN COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH MIDWEST. SQUALL LINE SHOULD
SET UP TO OUR WEST AND MOVE IN. WILL TIME POPS TO AFTERNOON. AS FRONT
MOVES THROUGH WILL CONTINUE POPS TOMORROW NIGHT.

THURSDAY FRONT IS TO OUR EAST. WITH SINKING MOTION AND FRONT TO OUR
EAST IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE WE COULD GET A DRY DAY ON THU.

NEXT SYSTEM RAPIDLY TAKES SHAPE AND BRINGS MORE STORMY WEATHER LATE
FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS SUNDAY AS LOW PRES
MOVES UP OHIO VALLEY.

WILL BLEND NGM AND AVN MOS FOR TEMPS.

WL PROBABLY NOT ISSUE FFA...BUT WILL MONITOR RADAR TRENDS UP TO
ISSUANCE TIME. IT WON/T TAKE MUCH MORE WATER TO CAUSE PROBLEMS.

.IWX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 440 FOR ENTIRE CWFA UNTIL 23Z.

REAUGH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:47 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1047 AM EST TUE JUN 13 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1044 AM    SOUTH BEND                IN   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/00   ST.JOSEPH                      TRAINED WEATHER
                                          OBSERVER REPORT. SOUTH
                                          SIDE OF TOWN NEAR
                                          IRELAND ROAD.

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:55 AM EST, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1055 AM EST TUE JUN 13 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1051 AM    MISHAWAKA                 IN   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/00   ST.JOSEPH                      ESTIMATED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER ON NORTH SIDE
                                          OF MISHAWAKAX.

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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, 10:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	52 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.