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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Northern Indiana

May 15, 2001Noble County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2001, 7:56 PM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 54 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: May 15, 2001, 7:56 PM EST (00:56 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2001, 8:50 PM EST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Noble County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 15, 7:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 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 
WUUS53 KIWX 160056
SVRFWA
INC113-160150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
756 PM EST TUE MAY 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NOBLE COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 850 PM EST

* AT 756 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  CROMWELL
  ROME CITY
  ALBION
  KENDALLVILLE

ONE INCH SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM! SEEK 
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

REPORT SEVEREZ WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4155 8557 4149 8568 4130 8560 4126 8527
          4147 8521

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	49 min
May 15, 7:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	55 min
May 15, 7:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	49 min
May 15, 7:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	49 min
May 16, 12:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	50 min
May 16, 1:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	65 min
May 16, 1:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	47 min
May 16, 6:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.