Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2016, 6:31 PM EDT for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 24, 2016, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Wabash County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
787
WFUS53 KIWX 242231
TORIWX
INC169-242300-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0024.160824T2231Z-160824T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
631 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 630 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WABASH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
WABASH AROUND 640 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
SERVIA...RICHVALLEY...LINCOLNVILLE...SPEICHERVILLE...URBANA AND
LAGRO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4088 8594 4092 8564 4074 8564 4073 8594
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 263DEG 22KT 4080 8593
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
NWS1 follow-up statement
086
WWUS53 KIWX 242244
SVSIWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
644 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
INC169-242300-
/O.CON.KIWX.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-160824T2300Z/
WABASH IN-
644 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY...
AT 644 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER WABASH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
EAST CENTRAL WABASH COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
SERVIA...LINCOLNVILLE...SPEICHERVILLE AND LAGRO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4088 8586 4092 8564 4075 8564 4077 8585
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 263DEG 22KT 4081 8582
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
NWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Miami | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Wells | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Wells | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 5:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Huntington, Whitley | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Wells | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 7:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.