Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 8:29 PM EST for Bartholomew County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:29 PM EST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 9:05 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bartholomew County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:32 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, IN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Putnam | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 7:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 8:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 8:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.