Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 9:06 PM EST for Pulaski County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 19, 2002, 9:06 PM EST (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 9:50 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:30 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Winamac, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 200206 SVRFWA INC131-200245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 906 PM EST FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 950 PM EST * AT 906 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FRANCESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... PULASKI WINAMAC MONTEREY 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 9:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 10:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 10:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 60 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.