Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT for Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 62 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 12, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Branch County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 12, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Colon, MI | Trees and power lines downed. Minor damage to a grain bin. |
| Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson, MI | Roofs blown off two pole barns. Large grain bin moved 1/4 mile by wind. Trees down and some uprooted. |
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
855 WFUS53 KIWX 122240 TORFWA MIC023-122340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 638 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BRANCH COUNTY IN MICHIGAN * UNTIL 740 PM EDT * AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRONSON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF STURGIS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED AT COLON AT 635 PM EDT. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... BRONSON COLDWATER QUINCY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER. 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 4203 8542 4186 8539 4188 8479 4213 8484 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Saint Joseph | 48 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.