Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1998, 3:04 PM EST for Morgan County, Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1998, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1998, 3:50 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morgan County, IN, Putnam County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 459 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 751 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
632 WUUS1 KIND 152014 SVRIND INC109-133-152050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 304 PM EST WED APR 15 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 350 PM EST * AT 300 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CLOVERDALE...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS. .. MOVING EAST 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EMINENCE 320 PM MOVROVIA 330 PM THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR CLOVERDALE AT 255 PM & DS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 10:53 AM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-151700- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1050 AM EST TUE APR 14 1998 ...MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL INDIANA WITH A SLIGHT RISK IN THE NORTH... SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT INDIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER THE SOUTH TWO THIRDS OF INDIANA. THE MAIN TIME FRAME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BEGIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS INDIANA TODAY PRODUCING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE BIG STORMS MOST LIKELY TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER ARE NOT EXPECTED BEFORE LATE AFTERNOON AND WILL BE BEHIND THE WARM FRONT IN THE WARMEST AND MOST UNSTABLE AIR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOONN AND THROUGH THE NIGHT. TUCEK
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.