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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

May 9, 2000Hillsdale County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 7:49 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Michigan. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2000, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 8:20 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Hillsdale County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 092350
TORFWA
MIC059-100020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
749 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HILLSDALE COUNTY IN MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 820 PM EDT

* AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HILLSDALE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...

  PITTSBORO
  SHADYSIDE

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 9, 1:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	28 min
May 9, 1:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	35 min
May 9, 2:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	27 min
May 9, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	34 min
May 9, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	29 min
May 9, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	28 min
May 9, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Hillsdale	32 min
May 9, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Hillsdale	58 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.