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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Northern Indiana

October 18, 2007Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 8:10 PM EDT for Noble County, Whitley County, Indiana. 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: Oct 18, 2007, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2007, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Noble County, IN, Whitley County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Oct 18, 4:23 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 190010
TORIWX
INC113-183-190100-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0039.071019T0010Z-071019T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
810 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NOBLE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA
  NORTHWESTERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 808 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. 
  THIS FUNNEL CLOUD AND SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST 
  OF WILMOT...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF WINONA LAKE...AND MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE STORM INCLUDE...
  KENDALLVILLE...
  ALBION...
  WILMOT AND ETNA...
  ORMAS...KNAPP LAKE AND LOON LAKE...
  BEAR LAKE...WOLFLAKE AND KIMMEL...
  BRIMFIELD...

IF YOUR IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4150 8520 4141 8520 4121 8566 4127 8566
      4127 8565 4145 8566
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 232DEG 33KT 4123 8572

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KIWX 190042
SVSIWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
840 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

INC183-190050-
/O.CAN.KIWX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-071019T0100Z/
WHITLEY IN-
840 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WHITLEY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 836 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED OR
MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE
OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

IF YOU HAVE SEVERE WEATHER TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.

LAT...LON 4150 8520 4141 8520 4137 8550 4146 8558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 226DEG 38KT 4146 8541

$$

INC113-190100-
/O.CON.KIWX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-071019T0100Z/
NOBLE IN-
840 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
NOBLE COUNTY...

AT 836 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 
STRONG ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALBION...OR 
ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF LIGONIER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
  KENDALLVILLE AND LISBON...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU HAVE SEVERE WEATHER TO REPORT...YOU CAN CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.

LAT...LON 4150 8520 4141 8520 4137 8550 4146 8558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 226DEG 38KT 4146 8541

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble, Steuben	54 min
Oct 18, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	51 min
Oct 18, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		87 min
Oct 18, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	39 min
Oct 18, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	40 min
Oct 18, 8:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	47 min
Oct 18, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski, White	66 min
Oct 18, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall, Starke	48 min
Oct 18, 10:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall	47 min
Oct 18, 10:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	45 min
Oct 18, 10:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaGrange	34 min
Oct 18, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange	60 min
Oct 18, 10:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Huntington, Whitley	28 min
Oct 18, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Noble	45 min
Oct 19, 12:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	12 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.