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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Northern Indiana

May 30, 2004Fulton County, Marshall County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 8:02 PM EST for Fulton County, Marshall County, Indiana. It was in force for 58 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
May 30, 2004, 8:02 PM EST (01:02 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2004, 9:00 PM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fulton County, IN, Marshall County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 30, 6:55 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -89 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 310102
SVRIWX
INC049-099-310200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
802 PM EST SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN INDIANA
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 900 PM EST

* AT 802 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CULVER...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  CULVER
  ROCHESTER
  ARGOS
  PLYMOUTH
  LA PAZ
  BREMEN

SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.

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 4147 8614 4124 8614 4116 8616 4095 8618
          4098 8647 4147 8647

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass51 min
May 30, 7:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski, Starke79 min
May 30, 7:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski, Starke74 min
May 30, 7:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen5 hr
May 30, 8:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhite45 min
May 30, 8:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Marshall53 min
May 30, 8:42 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXMiami63 min
May 30, 8:55 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXWabash80 min
May 30, 9:20 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXBlackford, Jay40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.