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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 2:46 PM EST for Adams County, Jay County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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 10, 2002, 2:46 PM EST (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, IN, Jay County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 10, 2:46 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Petroleum, IN | This tornado touched down briefly in Wells county just east of Petroleum. An NWS areal survey found F0 damage occurred along a 1 mile path about 100 yards wide mainly to trees. Two small outbuildings were also damaged. |
| Nov 10, 2:59 PM EST | Tornado F3 | Berne, IN | This tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Berne and moved just northeast of Salem before lifting.An NWS ground survey found F3 damage at times 200 yards wide northeast of Berne. Much of the damage was to extremely well built Amish barns and homes. A mobil |
| Nov 10, 3:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Decatur, IN | A trained spotter reported numerous trees down just north of Decatur. |
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 10, 12:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 2:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 3:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding, Putnam | 58 min |
| Nov 10, 3:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 3:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Putnam | 54 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.