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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Northern Indiana

August 22, 2001Fulton County, Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2001, 7:06 PM EST for Fulton County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 22, 2001, 7:06 PM EST (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2001, 7:50 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
Aug 22, 7:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester, IN	Trees blown down.
Aug 22, 7:20 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Warsaw, IN	Trees blown down.
Aug 22, 7:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Oswego, IN	Trees blown down.
Aug 22, 7:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Warsaw, IN	Two oak trees completely uprooted at the corner of High and Market Streets in downtown Warsaw.
Aug 22, 7:39 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, IN	Trees and power lines down countywide.

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
Aug 22, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 2203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

848 
WUUS53 KIWX 230007
SVRFWA
INC049-085-131-230050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
706 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN INDIANA
  SOUTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA
  PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 750 PM EST

* AT 706 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MENTONE TO 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF WINAMAC...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  BURKET
  WINONA LAKE
  CLAYPOOL
  KEWANNA
  PIERCETON
  SIDNEY

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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 2:50 PM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:50 PM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
250 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

FCST CHALLENGES ARE SVR AND FLOOD POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT.

SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED WRMFNT EXTENDING FROM SRN WI TO SERN IN.
CDFNT EXTD FM NRN LMIC ACRS CNTRL WI TO ERN NE.  MSAS DATA
AND GOES DATA INDICATED VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN THE WARM SECTOR
WITH CAPES TO OVR 4K AND LI VALUES IN THE MINUS 6 TO MINUS 10
RANGE.  THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG CDFNT...WHILE OTHER
STORMS EXTD FM CNTRL LMIC TO NW OH. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH
INITIATING TS COMPLEX OVR SRN WI...NRN IL AND NE IA THIS AFT AND
BRINGING SYS ACRS CWFA TONIGHT...THOUGH AVN OFFERING A SOMEWHAT
SLOWER SOLUTION. GIVEN CURRENT DEVELOPMENT...ETA LOOKS TO HAVE
SOMEWHAT BETTER PLACEMENT. WITH REGARD TO THE CDFNT...HOWEVER...ETA
LOOKS TO BE TOO FAST DROPPING FNT S OF CWFA...SO WL LEAN TOWARD AVN
SPEED...WHICH IS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN FASTER ETA AND SLOWER NGM.
WITH STRONG WND FIELD...50 KTS IN 5 TO 10 K FT LYR AND GOOD
INSTABILITY...SVR STORMS POSSIBLE.  PW VALUES OF 1.5 TO 1.75 INCHES
ALSO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.  BASED ON SLOWER TIMING OF AVN...
WL HOLD ON TO A CHC POP FOR AM SHRA OR TSRA FOR THU...THEN FCST
LOOKS DRY AS HI PRES CNTR TO NE USHERS IN DRIER AIR. FNT WL BEGIN TO
LIFT BACK TO NE ON SAT...SO WL KEEP CHC OF TSRA...BUT WORD AS LATE
IN THE AFT.  F120 AVN INDICATES SLOWER AND DEEPER SYS MOVING OUT OF
CNTRL PLAINS...SO WL HOLD ON TO POPS FOR BOTH SUN AND MON. RDG
ALOFT AND AT SFC SHOULD BRING DRY WEATHER FOR TUE AND WED.

AS FOR TEMPS...BASED ON TRAJECTORIES AND CURRENT DWPTS...WL GO ABOVE
FWC AND MAV NUMBERS FOR TONIGHT. PREFER SLIGHT WARMER FWC NUMBERS
FOR THU GIVEN WARM START AND SOME SUNSHINE.  FWC AND MAV NUMBERS IN
GOOD AGREEMENT LATER PDS AND LOOK REASONABLE BASED ON BLYR AND
85H TEMP SCHEMES.

.IWX...NONE.

BARJENBRUCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:10 PM EST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
610 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0605 PM    2 NW PLYMOUTH             IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/01   MARSHALL                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:29 PM EST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
629 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0615 PM    WAWAKA                    IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/22/01   NOBLE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0625 PM    ALBION                    IN   1 INCH HAIL
08/22/01   NOBLE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:38 PM EST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
638 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0637 PM    4 NW COLUMBIA CITY        IN   .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/01   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:42 PM EST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
642 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0634 PM    5 W COLUMBIA CITY         IN   1 INCH HAIL
08/22/01   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:49 PM EST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
649 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    WARSAW                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/01   KOSCIUSKO                      TREE DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0630 PM    NORTH WEBSTER             IN   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/01   KOSCIUSKO                      TREE DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0641 PM    5 N COLUMBIA CITY         IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/22/01   WHITLEY                        2 INCH HAIL. REPORTED
                                          BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:52 PM EST, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
652 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    2 E COLUMBIA CITY         IN   .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/01   WHITLEY                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 7:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	44 min
Aug 22, 7:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	38 min
Aug 22, 7:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	51 min
Aug 22, 7:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.