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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 11:53 PM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 16 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2011, 11:53 PM EDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2011, 12:09 AM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adams County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Jay County, IN, Wells County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:03 AM EDT | TSTM WND GST 62 | W Liberty Center, IN | MEASURED 62MPH WIND GUST. LIMBS AND LARGE BRANCHES DOWN BLOCKING THE ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 25, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
222
WFUS53 KIWX 260353
TORIWX
INC001-009-075-179-260430-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0017.110526T0353Z-110526T0430Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1153 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...
BLACKFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...
NORTHWESTERN JAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...
SOUTHERN WELLS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...
* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT
* AT 1148 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR HARTFORD CITY...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE...
PENNVILLE...
BERNE...BLUFFTON AND GENEVA...
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE MOUNT
ZION...KEYSTONE...BALBEC...NOTTINGHAM...DILLMAN...FIAT...LIBERTY
CENTER...PONETO...WELLSBURG...PETROLEUM...TRAVISVILLE AND REIFFSBURG.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
&&
LAT...LON 4048 8544 4059 8545 4083 8509 4060 8480
4038 8532 4039 8538
TIME...MOT...LOC 0353Z 225DEG 57KT 4049 8531
$$
JC1 follow-up statement
838
WWUS53 KIWX 260409
SVSIWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1209 AM EDT THU MAY 26 2011
INC001-009-075-179-260419-
/O.CAN.KIWX.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-110526T0430Z/
ADAMS IN-WELLS IN-JAY IN-BLACKFORD IN-
1209 AM EDT THU MAY 26 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BLACKFORD...NORTHWESTERN JAY...SOUTHERN
WELLS AND SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
AT 1207 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED
AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHEASTERN INDIANA.
LAT...LON 4048 8544 4059 8545 4083 8509 4060 8480
4038 8532 4039 8538
TIME...MOT...LOC 0409Z 225DEG 57KT 4066 8506
$$
JCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington | 30 min |
| May 25, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 27 min |
| May 25, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Grant | 10 hr |
| May 25, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Pulaski, White | 54 min |
| May 25, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Grant, Miami, Wabash | 62 min |
| May 25, 11:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Grant, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami and 4 more | 12 hr |
| May 25, 11:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells | 37 min |
| May 25, 11:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Wells | 24 hr |
| May 26, 12:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 24 min |
| May 26, 12:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 11 hr |
| May 26, 12:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Whitley | 10 hr |
| May 26, 2:50 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami, Wabash | 32 hr |
| May 26, 4:22 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 28 hr | |
| May 26, 7:30 AM EDT | Lakeshore Flood Statement | IWX | 35 hr | |
| May 26, 10:05 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | IWX | Carroll, White | 36 hr |
| May 26, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Wabash | 58 hr |
| May 26, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke | 9 days |
| May 26, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Carroll, Pulaski, White | 8 days |
| May 26, 12:17 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | IWX | Elkhart | 23 hr |
| May 26, 2:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 1 more | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.