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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana

June 23, 2016Kosciusko County, Wabash County, Whitley County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT for Kosciusko County, Wabash County, Whitley County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 23, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2016, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Kosciusko County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Whitley County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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
Jun 23, 12:03 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Claypool, IN	NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED WITH REPORTS OF AN RV DESTROYED AND BARN DAMAGE.

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
Jun 22, 10:33 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

636 
WFUS53 KIWX 230400
TORIWX
INC085-169-183-230430-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0004.160623T0400Z-160623T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1200 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
  SOUTHWESTERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT
    
* AT 1200 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR AKRON...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINONA
  LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 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...
  NORTH MANCHESTER AROUND 1215 AM EDT.
  SOUTH WHITLEY AROUND 1225 AM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
PACKERTON...COLLAMER...SIDNEY...CLAYPOOL...BEAVER DAM LAKE AND
LIBERTY MILLS.

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 4107 8601 4118 8593 4113 8555 4100 8563
      4100 8564 4098 8564 4093 8567
TIME...MOT...LOC 0400Z 292DEG 34KT 4111 8594 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

JBALL

1 follow-up statement

775 
WWUS53 KIWX 230430
SVSIWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1230 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

INC085-169-183-230440-
/O.EXP.KIWX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160623T0430Z/
WABASH IN-WHITLEY IN-KOSCIUSKO IN-
1230 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN WABASH...SOUTHWESTERN WHITLEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS
AND EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4107 8601 4118 8593 4113 8555 4100 8563
      4100 8564 4098 8564 4093 8567
TIME...MOT...LOC 0429Z 292DEG 34KT 4111 8594 

$$

JBALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	58 min
Jun 22, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		97 min
Jun 22, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	58 min
Jun 22, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	40 min
Jun 22, 10:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	3 hr
Jun 22, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko	63 min
Jun 22, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	45 min
Jun 22, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall	41 min
Jun 22, 11:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble, Whitley	66 min
Jun 22, 11:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, Saint Joseph	3 hr
Jun 22, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	White	47 min
Jun 23, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wabash, Whitley	30 min
Jun 23, 12:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wells	38 min
Jun 23, 1:05 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IWX	Huntington, Wells	25 min
Jun 23, 1:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.