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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 1998Owen County, Putnam County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 1:08 AM EST for Owen 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: Jun 19, 1998, 1:08 AM EST (06:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 1:40 AM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Owen 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
Jun 18, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 17.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

630 
WUUS1 KIND 190609 RRA
SVRIND
INC119-133-190640-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
108 AM EST FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OWEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA
  PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 140 AM EST

* AT 108 AM EST...SPOTTERS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  GREENCASTLE TO 10 MILES WEST OF SPENCER... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
  TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN KNOX AND VIGO COUNTIES.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GREENCASTLE BY 115 AM
  SPENCER BY 120 AM

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LASHLEY/EDDY


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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

Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:42 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1142 PM EST THU JUNE 19 1998

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

1034 PM                              IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   PARKE                          TREES REPORTED DOWN
                                          SOUTH HALF OF COUNTY
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

1036 PM                              IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   MONTOGOMERY                    ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
                                          NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

1050 PM                              IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   MONTGOMERY                     ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
                                          NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

1104 PM    NEWPORT                   IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   VERMILLION                     ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

UNKNOWN                              IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   CLAY                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN NORTH HALF OF COUNTY
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

1115 PM                              IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98   PUTNAM                         TREES DOWNED COUNTY WIDE
                                          BY COUNTY SHERIFF

ELSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Carroll, Tippecanoe	48 min
Jun 18, 10:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	49 min
Jun 18, 10:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay	33 min
Jun 18, 10:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Putnam	47 min
Jun 18, 11:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Morgan	45 min
Jun 18, 11:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Johnson, Marion	49 min
Jun 18, 11:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Shelby	31 min
Jun 18, 11:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Madison	32 min
Jun 18, 11:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Monroe	34 min
Jun 19, 12:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	34 min
Jun 19, 12:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur, Henry, Rush	46 min
Jun 19, 12:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware	46 min
Jun 19, 12:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew	46 min
Jun 19, 12:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox, Sullivan	35 min
Jun 19, 12:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	31 min
Jun 19, 1:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Monroe, Morgan	31 min
Jun 19, 1:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	32 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.