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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Northern 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.
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:55 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 51 min |
| May 30, 7:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 79 min |
| May 30, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 74 min |
| May 30, 7:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 5 hr |
| May 30, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 45 min |
| May 30, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Marshall | 53 min |
| May 30, 8:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami | 63 min |
| May 30, 8:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 80 min |
| May 30, 9:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Jay | 40 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.