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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Northern Indiana

July 4, 2001Pulaski County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2001, 3:01 PM EST for Pulaski County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 4, 2001, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2001, 3:40 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pulaski County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 042002
TORFWA

INC131-042040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
301 PM EST WED JUL 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 340 PM EST

* AT 301 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL PULASKI COUNTY...NEAR STAR    
  CITY... MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

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 4109 8646 4103 8667 4093 8659 4092 8647

LASHLEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 5:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Marshall, Starke	37 min
Jul 4, 6:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Saint Joseph	51 min
Jul 4, 1:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	50 min
Jul 4, 2:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	46 min
Jul 4, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	50 min
Jul 4, 3:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton	46 min
Jul 4, 3:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	54 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.