Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 1:19 AM EST for Hendricks County, Monroe County, Morgan County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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, 1:19 AM EST (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 1:50 AM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hendricks County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
696 WUUS1 KIND 190620 RRA SVRIND INC063-105-109-190650- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 119 AM EST FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENDRICKS COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 150 AM EST * AT 117 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM 15 MILES WEST OF DANVILLE TO 10 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BLOOMINGTON BY 130 AM MARTINSVILLE BY 130 AM BROWNSBURG BY 140 AM THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LASHLEY/EDDY
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 37 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
ELSONLocal storm report, Jun 19, 1:17 AM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1142 PM EST THU JUNE 18 1998
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1034 PM IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 PARKE TREES REPORTED DOWN
SOUTH HALF OF COUNTY
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
1036 PM IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 MONTOGOMERY ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
1050 PM IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 MONTGOMERY ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
1104 PM NEWPORT IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 VERMILLION ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
UNKNOWN IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 CLAY TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN NORTH HALF OF COUNTY
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
1115 PM IN WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 PUTNAM TREES DOWNED COUNTY WIDE
BY COUNTY SHERIFF
ELSON
CORRECTED DATESThe 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, 1:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen, Putnam | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 1:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 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.