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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1998, 6:49 PM EST for Howard County, Indiana. It was in force for 21 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
- Jul 19, 1998, 6:49 PM EST (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1998, 7:10 PM EST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 192350 SVRIND INC067-200010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 649 PM EST SUN JUL 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 710 PM EST * AT 648 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF KOKOMO NEAR GREENTOWN... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SYCAMORE AND JEROME BY 700 PM EST DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! ELSON
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
Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:39 PM EST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
639 PM EST SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
0631 PM FOREST IN 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/19/98 CLINTON GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
COVERING THE GROUND
ELSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Madison, Marion | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 6:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Tipton | 62 min |
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.