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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana

May 26, 2001Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2001, 5:54 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 16 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 26, 2001, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 6:10 PM EST
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Allen County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 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.

695 
WFUS53 KIWX 262257
TORFWA
INC003-262310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
554 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 610 PM EST

* AT 554 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRABILL...MOVING           
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT NORTHCREST      
  SHOPPING CENTER ON THE NORTH SIDE OF FORT WAYNE AT 545 PM EST.

*  SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
   NORTHEAST FORT WAYNE
   LEO-CEDARVILLE
   GRABILL 
  
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.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 4117 8519 4106 8481 4127 8481 4127 8508

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	34 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.