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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2001, 5:15 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 55 min. 9 reports 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
- Aug 22, 2001, 5:15 PM EST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2001, 6:10 PM EST
- In force
- 55 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:15 PM EST | Hail 1 | Grabill, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:17 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Leo, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:32 PM EST | Hail 2 | Grabill, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:34 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Woodburn, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:40 PM EST | Hail 1.5 | Woodburn, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:44 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Harlan, IN | |
| Aug 22, 5:44 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlan, IN | Trees down. |
| Aug 22, 5:44 PM EST | Hail 2 | Woodburn, IN | |
| Aug 22, 6:00 PM EST | Hail 2.5 | Zulu, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
392
WFUS53 KIWX 222216
TORFWA
INC003-222310-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
515 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA
* UNTIL 610 PM EST
* AT 515 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRABILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
NEW HAVEN
WOODBURN
MONROEVILLE
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 4128 8499 4118 8519 4093 8491 4094 8481
4112 8481The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 39 min |
| Aug 22, 4:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 50 min |
| Aug 22, 5:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Noble, Whitley | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 60 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.