Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2001, 6:12 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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 25, 2001, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County LaPorte County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville, IN | Tree blown down on U.S. Hwy 6. |
| Aug 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | La Porte, IN | An F0 tornado touched down in a field approximately 3 miles southwest of the city of La Porte near the intersection of County Roads 400 South and 500 West. The only damage was to corn and beans. |
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 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
782 WFUS53 KIWX 252313 TORFWA INC091-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 612 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LA PORTE COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF WESTVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... WESTVILLE MICHIGAN CITY TRAIL CREEK POTTAWATTOMIE PARK LA PORTE 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 4156 8718 4143 8701 4165 8651 4177 8679 SE
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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.