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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Northern Indiana

June 23, 2016Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2016, 1:05 AM EDT for Huntington County, Wells County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 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, 1:05 AM EDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2016, 1:30 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Huntington County, IN, Wells County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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, 1:15 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Bluffton, IN	BARN DESTROYED AND TREES DAMAGED ON SOUTH SIDE OF BLUFFTON. EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN. REPORT FROM TWITTER.

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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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.

379 
WFUS53 KIWX 230505
TORIWX
INC069-179-230530-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0005.160623T0505Z-160623T0530Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA...
  CENTRAL WELLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA...

* UNTIL 130 AM EDT
    
* AT 105 AM EDT...A TORNADO PRODUCING STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  MARKLE...OR 9 MILES WEST OF BLUFFTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  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 STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BLUFFTON AROUND 120 AM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
REIFFSBURG...ROCKFORD...MURRAY...TRAVISVILLE...NORTH OAKS AND LIBERTY
CENTER.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 69 IN INDIANA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 282 AND
286.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 4078 8543 4083 8538 4077 8507 4063 8515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0505Z 298DEG 28KT 4078 8534 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

JAL

1 follow-up statement

656 
WWUS53 KIWX 230513
SVSIWX

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

INC069-230522-
/O.CAN.KIWX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160623T0530Z/
HUNTINGTON IN-
113 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL HUNTINGTON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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

LAT...LON 4073 8533 4081 8533 4077 8507 4063 8515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0512Z 306DEG 34KT 4072 8525 

$$

INC179-230530-
/O.CON.KIWX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160623T0530Z/
WELLS IN-
113 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR CENTRAL
WELLS COUNTY...
        
AT 112 AM EDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUFFTON...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

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
CENTRAL WELLS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
REIFFSBURG...ROCKFORD...TRAVISVILLE AND NORTH OAKS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 4073 8533 4081 8533 4077 8507 4063 8515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0512Z 306DEG 34KT 4072 8525 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

JAL

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, 12:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley	30 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, 1:30 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.