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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2001, 6:32 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 18 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
- Apr 9, 2001, 6:32 PM EST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2001, 6:50 PM EST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 092333 SVRFWA INC169-092345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 632 PM EST MON APR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 650 PM EST * AT 632 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF WABASH...NEAR SOMERSET... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR SOMERSET AT 629 PM EST. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. 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 4079 8594 4068 8590 4068 8571 4080 8567
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 11:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 6:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 5:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Wabash | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 61 min |
| Apr 9, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 58 min |
| Apr 9, 6:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 6:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 6:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.