Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2002, 3:31 PM EST for Adams County, Wells 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
- Sep 20, 2002, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2002, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 3:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroe, IN | Emergency management reported several trees were blown down west of Monroe. A few hundred feet from the damage, a trampoline was wrapped around the top of a large tree. A barn was also destroyed 6 miles northeast 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 12:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 56 min |
| Sep 20, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 33 min |
| Sep 20, 3:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Putnam | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 3:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Putnam | 31 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.