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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2003, 4:55 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Michigan. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 1, 2003, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hillsdale County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014 WFUS53 KIWX 012055 TORIWX MIC059-012145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 455 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HILLSDALE COUNTY IN MICHIGAN * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF READING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... HILLSDALE JONESVILLE NORTH ADAMS 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 4188 8483 4175 8466 4205 8419 4223 8442
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Branch | 46 min |
| Aug 1, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 80 min |
| Aug 1, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.