Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001

Tornado Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

May 26, 2001Allen County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2001, 5:20 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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: May 26, 2001, 5:20 PM EST (22:20 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 40 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), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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
May 26, 5:35 PM EST	Tornado F0	Ft Wayne, IN	Brief touchdown knocked down large trees and power lines. Some roof damage.
May 26, 5:45 PM EST	Tornado F2	Ft Wayne, IN	Tornado touched down as as F1 at the Northcrest shopping mall on the northwest sideof Fort Wayne. Damaged to mall and surrounding businesses. Cars flipped over in parking lot withone person injured. Tornado then briefly lifted and touched down one half mile to

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 262222
TORFWA

INC003-262300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
520 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 520 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE...MOVING       
  EAST AT 35 MPH.  THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT ROUTE 5 AND 800 N    
  IN NORTHERN HUNTINGTON COUNTY.   


* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  FORT WAYNE
  NEW HAVEN
  MONROEVILLE
  WOODBURN

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 4106 8534 4093 8533 4096 8483 4124 8481

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	34 min
May 26, 3:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Miami	55 min
May 26, 4:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	39 min
May 26, 4:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	35 min
May 26, 4:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Wabash	42 min
May 26, 4:49 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington	31 min
May 26, 5:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen	16 min
May 26, 6:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	DeKalb	35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 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.