Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 9:08 PM EST for Allen County, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 9:08 PM EST (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola, IN | Public reported 2 barns destroyed in Arcola. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
524 WFUS53 KIWX 250208 TORFWA INC003-033-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 908 PM EST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA DE KALB COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 908 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUNTERTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... AUBURN ST. JOE WATERLOO BUTLER HAMILTON 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 9:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 38 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.