During the morning hours of 25 May 2011, at least six tornadoes struck a narrow corridor of Northeast Illinois and Northwest Indiana. Two tornadoes were rated EF0, three EF1, and one EF2. These tornadoes occurred in conjunction with a mesoscale convective system (MCS) that traveled northeast across the region during the early to mid-morning hours, between 1200 UTC and 1500 UTC. The tornadoes occurred at least 65 km away from the nearest NEXRAD WSR-88D radar site. The confirmed tornadoes from this event occurred without severe thunderstorm or tornado warnings likely due to the fact that (1) the squall-line was oriented parallel to the radar beam, (2) there were minimal real-time spotter reports, (3) embedded circulations were shallow, and (4) the tornado-producing storms did not exhibit classic radar signatures at the nearest NEXRAD locations. The tornadoes occurred anywhere from approximately 50-75 km from the C-band dual-polarimetric radar located on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN. In this presentation, we examine the data gathered from the C-band, dual-polarimetric radar at Valparaiso University. We review the data in hopes of revealing methods that could have better detected the tornadoes produced during this event
