Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1998, 9:58 PM EST for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 62 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, 9:58 PM EST (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 6, 1998, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 070258 RRA SVRIND INC055-070400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 958 PM EST SUN DEC 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 1100 PM EST * AT 955 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BRAZIL TO NEAR VINCENNES... MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LINTON BY 1010 PM EST BLOOMFIELD BY 1035 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, 9:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Putnam | 33 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, 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.