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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana

June 14, 2000Kosciusko County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2000, 5:05 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min. 10 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 14, 2000, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 5:40 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kosciusko County, IN, Whitley County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
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
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Columbia City, IN
Jun 14, 5:12 PM EST	Tornado F2	Sidney, IN	The last farm was hit when the tornado was located just west of 1300 S and 400 E in Kosciusko County. Two barns, a garage, and several outbuildings were completely destroyed with some of the foundations swept clean. The house and two cars were severely damag
Jun 14, 5:15 PM EST	Hail 1	Larwill, IN
Jun 14, 5:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, IN	Many barns and few homes damaged. Several trees and power lines down.
Jun 14, 5:25 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Larwill, IN
Jun 14, 5:30 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Columbia City, IN
Jun 14, 5:33 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Columbia City, IN
Jun 14, 5:36 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Tri Lakes, IN

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 142207
TORFWA
INC085-183-142240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
505 PM EST WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA
  WHITLEY COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 540 PM EST

* AT 505 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF SOUTH WHITLEY...OR NORTH OF     
  NORTH MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...  
  SOUTH WHITLEY
  COLUMBIA CITY
  
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 4106 8601 4101 8578 4104 8532 4151 8552

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, 4:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Wabash	50 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, 5:21 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.