Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 3:36 PM EST for Cass County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2001, 3:36 PM EST (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 4:10 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cass County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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 26, 4:03 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Logansport, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
108
WUUS53 KIWX 262037
SVRFWA
INC017-262110-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
336 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CASS COUNTY IN INDIANA
* UNTIL 410 PM EST
* AT 336 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF LOGANSPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
LOGANSPORT
ADAMSBORO
TWELVE MILE
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 4080 8657 4067 8637 4060 8618 4075 8618
4093 8624The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami | 55 min |
| May 26, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 39 min |
| May 26, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 35 min |
| May 26, 4:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 16 min |
| May 26, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 35 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.