Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2003, 1:07 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2003, 1:07 PM EST (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kosciusko County, IN, Noble County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
246 WUUS53 KIWX 201807 SVRFWA INC085-113-183-201845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 105 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN INDIANA WESTERN NOBLE COUNTY IN INDIANA NORTHWESTERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN INDIANA * UNTIL 145 PM EST * AT 105 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SIDNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... PIERCETON LARWILL NORTH WEBSTER CROMWELL LIGONIER ALBION ETNA THREE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER 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 4111 8590 4103 8569 4150 8529 4151 8562
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 12:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 50 min |
| Mar 20, 12:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 37 min |
| Mar 20, 1:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 2:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 2:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Whitley | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 3:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble, Steuben | 53 min |
| Mar 20, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 3:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 4:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wells | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.