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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana

June 4, 2002Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:03 PM EST for Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 4, 2002, 5:03 PM EST (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 5:50 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wells County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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
Jun 4, 5:09 PM EST	Hail 1	Uniondale, IN
Jun 4, 5:20 PM EST	Hail 0.88	Ossian, IN
Jun 4, 5:24 PM EST	Hail 1.25	Ossian, IN
Jun 4, 5:30 PM EST	Hail 1	Tocsin, 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
Jun 4, 3:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 2117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

103 
WFUS53 KIWX 042203
TORFWA
INC179-042250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
501 PM EST TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WELLS COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 550 PM EST

* AT 501 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  UNIONDALE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
  UNIONDALE...
  MURRAY...
  BLUFFTON...

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 4093 8535 4077 8534 4070 8509 4092 8509

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 12:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Whitley	32 min
Jun 4, 12:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	46 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	44 min
Jun 4, 4:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Miami	46 min
Jun 4, 4:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	30 min
Jun 4, 4:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington	45 min
Jun 4, 4:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Wabash	41 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington	24 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington	41 min
Jun 4, 5:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	40 min
Jun 4, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	31 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.