Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 12:37 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min. 3 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 12:37 PM EST (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 1:10 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kosciusko County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:43 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Winona Lake, IN | |
| Apr 20, 12:45 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | North Webster, IN | |
| Apr 20, 12:53 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Wolflake, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIWX 201738 TORFWA INC085-201810- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1237 PM EST THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 110 PM EST * AT 1236 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINONA LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... PIERCETON NORTH WEBSTER WINONA LAKE SIDNEY THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR NORTHERN INDIANA. LAT...LON 4114 8608 4101 8591 4132 8544 4149 8567 TEH/JLA NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 4:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 5:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 10:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 57 min |
| Apr 20, 11:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 11:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 11:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 11:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 11:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 11:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 12:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 12:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble, Whitley | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 1:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 54 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.