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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana

June 24, 2000Huntington County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2000, 8:41 PM EST for Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2000, 8:41 PM EST (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 9:15 PM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Huntington County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 250142
TORFWA
INC069-250215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
841 PM EST SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 841 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTINGTON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  HUNTINGTON...
  ROANOKE...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 4070 8578 4058 8561 4090 8511 4108 8535

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 8:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.