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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2016, 7:50 PM EDT for Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 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, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Grant County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.
108
WFUS53 KIWX 242350
TORIWX
INC053-250015-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0032.160824T2350Z-160825T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
750 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 749 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WINDFALL CITY...OR 11 MILES WEST OF
FAIRMOUNT... 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...
GAS CITY AROUND 810 PM EDT.
FAIRMOUNT...JONESBORO AND MATTHEWS AROUND 815 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
RADLEY...HACKLEMAN...POINT ISABEL...FOWLERTON...MICHAELSVILLE AND
NORMAL.
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 4048 8586 4050 8545 4038 8545 4038 8586
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 274DEG 22KT 4041 8586
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
NG1 follow-up statement
313
WWUS53 KIWX 250006
SVSIWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
806 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
INC053-250015-
/O.CON.KIWX.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-160825T0015Z/
GRANT IN-
806 PM EDT WED AUG 24 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN
GRANT COUNTY...
AT 806 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR FAIRMOUNT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
FAIRMOUNT AROUND 815 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
RADLEY...HACKLEMAN...POINT ISABEL...FOWLERTON AND MICHAELSVILLE.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 252 AND
257.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4045 8580 4047 8545 4038 8545 4038 8586
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 272DEG 22KT 4040 8575
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
NGThe 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, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 29 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, 7:55 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.