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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 4:45 PM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2001, 4:45 PM EST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Noble County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:50 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Indian Vlg, IN | Tornado touched down in extreme southeast Marshall county and moved northeast across Kosciusko county and into Noble county where the tornado dissipated near Rome City. Most significant F1 damage was north of Warsaw Indiana where 14 people were hurt at a facto |
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Kendallville, IN | |
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, IN | Noble county Fire/rescue reported trees and power lines down across much of the county. Emergency management reported damage to homes from fallen trees and roof 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
300 WFUS53 KIWX 242147 TORFWA INC113-242230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 445 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NOBLE COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 530 PM EST * AT 445 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROMWELL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... CROMWELL LIGONIER ALBION 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 40 min |
| Oct 24, 3:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke, White | 24 min |
| Oct 24, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke, White | 18 min |
| Oct 24, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 3:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 59 min |
| Oct 24, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 54 min |
| Oct 24, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko | 54 min |
| Oct 24, 4:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 62 min |
| Oct 24, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Whitley | 63 min |
| Oct 24, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 63 min |
| Oct 24, 4:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 5:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Jay, Wells | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams | 50 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.