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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Northern Indiana

May 30, 2004Pulaski County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 6:21 PM EST for Pulaski County, Indiana. It was in force for 69 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, 6:21 PM EST (23:21 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pulaski County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.

389 
WFUS53 KIWX 302321
TORIWX
INC131-310030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PULASKI COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 621 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES WEST OF
  FRANCESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
  FRANCESVILLE
  PULASKI
  MEDARYVILLE
  WINAMAC
  STAR CITY

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 4117 8670 4117 8648 4097 8648 4096 8663
          4093 8680 4111 8693

$$

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, 1:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	White	74 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

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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.