Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2002, 2:57 PM EST for Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2002, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 3:50 PM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grant County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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 25, 3:04 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 64 E | Elwood, IN | |
| May 25, 3:07 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Leisure, IN | Trees down and snapped off. |
| May 25, 3:15 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Marion, IN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 251957 SVRFWA INC053-252045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 256 PM EST SAT MAY 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 350 PM EST * AT 256 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF SWAYZEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... POINT ISABEL HACKLEMAN FAIRMOUNT FOWLERTON UPLAND GAS CITY JONESBORO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE STORM SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 4037 8602 4024 8585 4048 8549 4064 8570
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 46 min |
| May 25, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 48 min |
| May 25, 2:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 28 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 28 min |
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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.