{
  "id": "2026-06-11-indiana-university-kokomo-tornado-warning",
  "slug": "indiana-university-kokomo-tornado-warning-2026-06-11",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Indiana University Kokomo",
    "shortName": "IU Kokomo",
    "state": "IN",
    "type": "public-r2",
    "alertSystemName": "IU Notify / IUK Alert",
    "enrollment": 3000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-06-11",
    "type": "tornado",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Howard County tornado warning triggers IUK SEEK SHELTER NOW alert",
    "headlinePublic": "Howard County tornado warning triggers IUK SEEK SHELTER NOW alert",
    "summary": "On the night of Thursday, June 11, 2026, [IU Public Safety](https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065253217810694406) posted an IUK Alert for Howard County directing people to seek shelter after the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning covering the Kokomo campus area.",
    "outcome": "The cited NWS tornado warning expired later that night. No separate IUK all-clear post was located on the @IUpolice feed in the immediate window."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-11T22:01:52-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "IUK Alert:Howard County: SEEK SHELTER NOW.\n\nTornado Warning issued June 11 at 9:59PM EDT until June 11 at 10:30PM EDT by NWS Indianapolis IN",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065253217810694406",
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (official IU Public Safety, full status text)",
      "annotations": [
        "Single recovered IUK Alert for Howard County tornado warning"
      ],
      "characterCount": 140
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Indiana University Kokomo](https://kokomo.iu.edu/) receives IUK Alert messages. On June 11, 2026, during a multi-campus Indiana tornado-warning night, [@IUpolice](https://x.com/IUpolice) posted an IUK Alert SEEK SHELTER NOW message for Howard County.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official IUK Alert full text recovered from @IUpolice",
    "Part of the same-night multi-campus IU tornado-warning cluster"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice on X — IUK Howard County tornado",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065253217810694406",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "tornado",
    "iu-kokomo",
    "indiana",
    "2026"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-20",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-20",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}