1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 2:35 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 235 PM EST TUE JUL 10 2001 MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT 100KT 200MB JET STREAK OVR UPR MDWST WL MOVE ARND BASE OF ERN US/CAN TROF NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. 500MB CLOSED LOW OVR WRN QUEBEC XPCD TO DROP SE TO NEW ENGLAND BY THU. VORT MAX OVR LH WL MOVE SE ACRS LWR GRTLKS TNGT. ANOTHER VORT LOBE EXPECTED TO ROTATE ARND CLOSED LOW INTO LWR GRTLKS THU, TAKING A LTL MORE ELY TRACK THAN TDAYS/TNGTS. MODELS ALL FORECASTING WK UVM ARND 700MB LATE THIS AFTN/EVE AS FIRST S/WV MOVES BY. LATEST LAPS DATA SUGGEST 1-2K J/KG CAPES OVR CWA. COUPLE OF WK WIND SHIFT LINES NOTED AT SFC, BUT CONVERGENCE VERY WK. WK FORCING, LIMITED MOISTURE, AND DECENT INSTABILITY SUGGESTS KEEPING LOW POPS FOR THIS EVENING...EXCEPT PLAN ON REMOVING POPS NW WHERE STABILIZING INFLUENCE OF NW FLOW ACRS LM SHD PREVENT DEEP CONVECTION. BUFKIT SHOWING >30C SFC-10K FT DELTA THETA-E THIS EVE, INDICATING GOOD DOWNDRAFT/HAIL POTENTIAL WITH TSTMS...ALSO DECENT 0-6KM SHEAR AND SOME ROTATION ALREADY NOTED IN NW OH TSTM. HI PRES AND COOLER/DRIER AMS XPCD TO BUILD INTO AREA OVRNGT AND REMAIN THRU WED. WK S/WV FCST BY MODELS TO BE MOVG OVR BACKSIDE OF PLAINS RIDGE INTO SRN SASK WED MORNING. AVN MOVES THIS SYSTEM EAST THEN SE INTO NRN INDIANA BY 00Z FRI, WHILE ETA MOVES IT SLOWLY NE INTO MANITOBA. NGM ALSO MUCH SLOWER WITH MOVEMENT. ETA/NGM SOLUTIONS MORE CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS AND PREFERRED, THUS WILL KEEP MOSTLY SUNNY FORECAST FOR THU. MOS TEMPS FAIRLY CLOSE THROUGHOUT AND SEEM REASONABLE. GIVEN DRY AMS, LEANED TOWARD LARGER DIURNAL RANGES WHERE DIFERENCES EXIST. IWX...NONE. DJT
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:07 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado crossed into Pulaski county from Jasper county and traveled for about one mile beforelifting. Funnel cloud was visible for another 15 minutes before dissipating near the Pulaski and Whitecounty line. Tornado was down in corn field.
Large tree limb down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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