Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1998, 9:37 PM EST for Clay County, Putnam County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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
- Dec 6, 1998, 9:37 PM EST (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 6, 1998, 10:10 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IN, Putnam County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 729 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 070237 RRA SVRIND INC021-133-070310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 937 PM EST SUN DEC 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1010 PM EST * AT 932 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF KOKOMO TO NEAR GREENCASTLE TO NEAR SULLIVAN OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE...MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GREENCASTLE AT 935 PM EST CLAY CITY AROUND 940 PM EST DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MK/SE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Tippecanoe | 29 min |
| Dec 6, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 29 min |
| Dec 6, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Howard | 28 min |
| Dec 6, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 28 min |
| Dec 6, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Dec 6, 9:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 50 min |
| Dec 6, 9:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 43 min |
| Dec 6, 9:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 46 min |
| Dec 6, 9:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen | 46 min |
| Dec 6, 9:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 62 min |
| Dec 6, 10:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 48 min |
| Dec 6, 10:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 48 min |
| Dec 6, 10:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Morgan | 46 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.