Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2000, 4:50 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 min. 3 reports 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 14, 2000, 4:50 PM EST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 5:40 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wabash County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado F1 | North Manchester, IN | The initial tornado touchdown occurred near the intersection of SR 15 and 114. Two barns were deroofed and a grain silo was partially blown down. Several trees and limbs were taken down. The tornado lifted briefly as it crossed SR 15. It then continued on |
| Jun 14, 5:05 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | North Manchester, IN | Barn destroyed and windows blown out of a brick house. |
| Jun 14, 5:07 PM EST | Tornado F2 | North Manchester, IN | The tornado touched down again, hitting a farm at 1300 N and 100 W. A man suffered a broken leg here. Two hog sheds and a large grain bin were destroyed. A 200-yard swath of trees were uprooted to the northeast along the railroad tracks. Another man suffer |
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 14, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIWX 142151 TORFWA INC169-142240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 450 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 540 PM EST * AT 450 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... NORTH MANCHESTER REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. THI<S IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER! NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Adams | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Wabash | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 4:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 5:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Whitley | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 5:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Blackford, Wells | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 6:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 6:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 40 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.