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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Northern Indiana

May 25, 2002Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2002, 2:02 PM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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, 2:02 PM EST (19:02 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2002, 2:50 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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, 2:05 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Somerset, IN	A Law enforcement reported several trees down as well as 2 barns and a silo destroyed.
May 25, 2:05 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Somerset, IN
May 25, 2:15 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Wabash, IN
May 25, 2:28 PM EST	Hail 0.75	La Fontaine, 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 251902
SVRFWA
INC169-251945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
202 PM EST SAT MAY 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WABASH COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 250 PM EST

* AT 202 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WABASH...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  WABASH
  LA FONTAINE
  LAGRO

SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.

QUARTER 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 4084 8596 4065 8595 4065 8587 4067 8567
          4087 8566

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, 2:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	28 min
May 25, 2:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wells	28 min
May 25, 2:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	53 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.