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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 5:43 PM EST for DeKalb County, Steuben County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min. 5 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
- May 9, 2000, 5:43 PM EST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 6:10 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, IN, Steuben County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:51 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Ashley, IN | |
| May 9, 5:55 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn, IN | Trees and power lines down. |
| May 9, 6:03 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Auburn, IN | |
| May 9, 6:05 PM EST | Hail 1 | Angola, IN | |
| May 9, 6:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Spencerville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 092243 TORFWA INC033-151-092310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 543 PM EST TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST DE KALB COUNTY IN INDIANA STEUBEN COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 610 PM EST * AT 532 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF GARRETT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALLVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... WATERLOO ASHLEY HAMILTON ANGOLA FREMONT 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. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 35 min |
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 35 min |
| May 8, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke | 55 min |
| May 9, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 28 min |
| May 9, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 28 min |
| May 9, 12:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 34 min |
| May 9, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 35 min |
| May 9, 1:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 27 min |
| May 9, 6:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 29 min |
| May 9, 6:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Wells | 27 min |
| May 9, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, White | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 47 min |
| May 9, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 18 min |
| May 9, 4:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Whitley | 44 min |
| May 9, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 9, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 29 min |
| May 9, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 28 min |
| May 9, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 32 min |
| May 9, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 30 min |
| May 9, 5:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Wells | 49 min |
| May 9, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 38 min |
| May 9, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 45 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.