Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2001, 6:05 PM EST for DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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, 6:05 PM EST (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 6:40 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County DeKalb County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 6:20 PM EST | Tornado F0 | St Joe, IN | Brief touchdown near CR 56 and CR 59. No damage. |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIWX 262306 TORFWA INC033-262340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 605 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DE KALB COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 640 PM EST * AT 605 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. JOE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... SPENCERVILLE ST. JOE BUTLER NEWVILLE 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. 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 4128 8516 4129 8493 4130 8481 4152 8480
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, 5:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 16 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.