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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1998, 9:10 PM EST for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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
- May 23, 1998, 9:10 PM EST (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1998, 9:40 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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
- 213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 240210 RRA SVRIND INC055-240240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 910 PM EST SAT MAY 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 940 PM EST * AT 908 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGTON OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMFIELD MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR SOLSBERRY AROUND 920 PM. * PLEASE TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SE VERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. HAINES
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
Special weather statement, May 23, 7:52 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
INZ060-061-067>071-076>092-240600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 752 PM EST SAT MAY 23 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1AM EST... A TORNADO WATCH WAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1AM EST. THE WATCH IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO SULLIVAN COUNTY TO 30 MILES EAST OF MADISON. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH ARE EVANSVILLE...VINCENNES...WASHINGTON...SALEM AND SCOTTSBURG. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN INDIANA THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST THEY MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH SOUTHERN INDIANA THIS EVENING BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER RELIABLE RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HAINES
Special weather statement, May 23, 7:52 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
INZ060-061-067>071-076>092-240600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 752 PM EST SAT MAY 23 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1AM EST... A TORNADO WATCH WAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 1AM EST. THE WATCH IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO SULLIVAN COUNTY TO 30 MILES EAST OF MADISON. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH ARE EVANSVILLE...VINCENNES...WASHINGTON...SALEM AND SCOTTSBURG. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN INDIANA THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST THEY MAY BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH SOUTHERN INDIANA THIS EVENING BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER RELIABLE RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HAINES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 34 min |
| May 24, 3:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen | 46 min |
| May 24, 4:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 24, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Shelby | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.