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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Northern Indiana

July 9, 2000Cass County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2000, 9:49 PM EST for Cass County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 9, 2000, 9:49 PM EST (02:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2000, 10:20 PM EST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cass County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3715 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3715 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 100250
TORFWA

INC017-100320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
949 PM EST SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CASS COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 1020 PM EST

* AT 949 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF ROYAL CENTER...MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  LOGANSPORT
  ADAMSBORO
  HOOVER

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 4095 8648 4080 8662 4049 8615 4070 8595

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 7:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb28 min
Jul 9, 8:00 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXDeKalb20 min
Jul 9, 9:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass36 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.