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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Northern Indiana

May 30, 2004White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 1:46 PM EST for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 74 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, 1:46 PM EST (18:46 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 74 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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
May 30, 11:50 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 301846
TORIWX
INC181-302000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
146 PM EST SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 300 PM EST

* AT 146 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WOLCOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
  WOLCOTT
  BROOKSTON
  CHALMERS
  REYNOLDS
  MONON
  MONTICELLO

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 4084 8700 4091 8695 4092 8660 4075 8659
          4075 8678 4060 8679 4058 8697 4058 8710
          4084 8711

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 12:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	52 min
May 30, 1:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	64 min
May 30, 2:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart	40 min
May 30, 2:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange	57 min
May 30, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	45 min
May 30, 3:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble, Steuben	54 min
May 30, 6:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Pulaski	69 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.