Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 6:17 PM EST for Vermillion County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1998, 6:17 PM EST (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 6:50 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermillion County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:40 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Dana, IN | Tornado damagedseveral storage buildings and blew down numerous trees. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 192317 RRA TORIND INC165-192350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 617 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... VERMILLION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 650 PM EST * AT 615 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE NEAR QUAKER... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. AT 615 PM EST...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR RIDGE FARM IN SOUTHEAST VERMILION COUNTY ILLINOIS MOVING EAST. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEWPORT AROUND 635 PM EST DANA AROUND 625 PM EST GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! DRT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warren | 39 min |
| May 19, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 36 min |
| May 19, 5:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain | 32 min |
| May 19, 6:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain | 32 min |
| May 19, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.