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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Northern Indiana

October 24, 2001Hillsdale County, Michigan; Williams County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 6:28 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Michigan; Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 4 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, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hillsdale County, MI, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 7:00 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Ransom, MI	Tornado with F1 damage mainly on the north side of Ransom. Garages and sheds destroyed and significant roof damage to homes with twisting of signs and trees.
Oct 24, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden, MI	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Camden. 3 houses also had roof damage and a shed and a barn were destroyed.
Oct 24, 7:07 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Frontier, MI	Law enforcement reported trees down near Frontier.
Oct 24, 7:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden, MI	Law enforcement reported several large grain bins and barns damaged near Camden.

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, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Oct 24, 12:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 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

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The text

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

451 
WFUS53 KIWX 242231
TORFWA
MIC059-OHC171-242330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
628 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HILLSDALE COUNTY IN MICHIGAN
  WILLIAMS COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 628 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER 
  REPORTS INDICATED TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  MONTGOMERY
  CAMDEN
  READING
  HILLSDALE
  PIONEER 
  MONTPELIER

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, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass	59 min
Oct 24, 5:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	46 min
Oct 24, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Branch	44 min
Oct 24, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Van Wert	58 min
Oct 24, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Paulding	60 min
Oct 24, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry, Putnam	56 min
Oct 24, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	56 min
Oct 24, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	67 min
Oct 24, 7:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Paulding, Putnam	41 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 2001 Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes in 2001

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.