Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 7:50 AM EST for Hancock 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 7:50 AM EST (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 8:20 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 021250 RRA SVRIND INC059-021320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 750 AM EST TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 820 AM EST * AT 745 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENFIELD... MOVING EAST 35 MPH. * THE SEV ERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STRINGTOWN CHARLOTTESVILLE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! DS
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, Jun 2, 4:30 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-031200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 430 AM EST TUE JUN 2 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR EVANSVILLE TO MUNCIE. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS INDIANA TODAY. THE FRONT WILL REACH SOUTHEAST INDIANA BY THIS AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY GENERATING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN AND AROUND THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS WELL AS POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. LASHLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:30 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-031200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 430 AM EST TUE JUN 2 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR EVANSVILLE TO MUNCIE. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS INDIANA TODAY. THE FRONT WILL REACH SOUTHEAST INDIANA BY THIS AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY GENERATING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN AND AROUND THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS WELL AS POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. LASHLEY
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.