Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 6:08 PM EST for Parke County, Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 6:08 PM EST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 6:40 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Parke County, IN, Putnam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
959 WUUS1 KIND 242309 RRA SVRIND INC121-133-242340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 608 PM EST MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 640 PM EST * AT 605 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TEN MILES WEST OF ROCKVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ROCKVILLE AT 615 PM EST RACOON LAKE STATE PARK AT 625 PM EST BAINBRIDGE AT 625 PM EST GREENCASTLE AT 630 PM EST DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JEH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 16 min |
| Aug 24, 5:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.