{
  "id": "2026-06-11-indiana-university-northwest-tornado-warning",
  "slug": "indiana-university-northwest-tornado-warning-2026-06-11",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Indiana University Northwest",
    "shortName": "IU Northwest",
    "state": "IN",
    "type": "public-r2",
    "alertSystemName": "IU Notify / IUN Alert",
    "enrollment": 4000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-06-11",
    "type": "tornado",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Lake County tornado warnings trigger repeated IUN SEEK SHELTER NOW alerts",
    "headlinePublic": "Lake County tornado warnings trigger repeated IUN SEEK SHELTER NOW alerts",
    "summary": "On the evening of Thursday, June 11, 2026, [IU Public Safety](https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065226940085125631) posted a series of IUN Alert messages for Lake County directing people to seek shelter as the National Weather Service issued and refreshed tornado warnings near the IU Northwest campus in Gary.",
    "outcome": "The cited NWS tornado warnings expired later that evening. No separate IUN all-clear post was located on the @IUpolice feed in the immediate window."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-11T20:17:27-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "IUN Alert:Lake County:SEEK SHELTER NOW.\n\nTornado Warning issued June 11 at 7:14PM CDT until June 11 at 8:00PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065226940085125631",
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (official IU Public Safety, full status text)",
      "annotations": [
        "First IUN Lake County SEEK SHELTER post (NWS start 7:14 PM CDT)"
      ],
      "characterCount": 131
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-11T20:32:35-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "IUN Alert:Lake County:SEEK SHELTER NOW.\n\nTornado Warning issued June 11 at 7:30PM CDT until June 11 at 8:00PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065230749075173721",
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (official IU Public Safety, full status text)",
      "annotations": [
        "Refreshed start time 7:30 PM CDT, same expiration"
      ],
      "characterCount": 131
    },
    {
      "sequence": 3,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-11T21:16:19-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "IUN Alert:Lake County:SEEK SHELTER NOW.\n\nTornado Warning issued June 11 at 8:13PM CDT until June 11 at 9:00PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065241756854014303",
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (official IU Public Safety, full status text)",
      "annotations": [
        "Extended window through 9:00 PM CDT"
      ],
      "characterCount": 131
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Indiana University Northwest](https://northwest.iu.edu/) in Gary receives IUN Alert messages. On June 11, 2026, [@IUpolice](https://x.com/IUpolice) posted multiple Lake County SEEK SHELTER NOW tornado warnings under the IUN Alert prefix as NWS Chicago refreshed the warning windows.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Three official IUN Alert posts track successive Lake County tornado-warning windows",
    "Newlines and colon-dense IU format preserved exactly"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice on X — IUN Lake County 7:14 PM CDT",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065226940085125631",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    },
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice on X — IUN Lake County 7:30 PM CDT",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065230749075173721",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    },
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice on X — IUN Lake County 8:13 PM CDT",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/2065241756854014303",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "tornado",
    "iu-northwest",
    "gary",
    "indiana",
    "2026"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-20",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-20",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}