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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 11, 1998Clinton County, Tipton County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1998, 6:27 PM EST for Clinton County, Tipton County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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 11, 1998, 6:27 PM EST (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1998, 7:00 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clinton County, IN, Tipton County, IN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 5:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.1000850700500300200100-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
6598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KIND 112327 RRA
TORIND
INC023-159-120000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
627 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHWESTERN TIPTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 700 PM EST

* AT 625 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR FRANKFORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARDS...
  MICHIGANTOWN
  HILLSBURG
  GROOMSVILLE

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 12:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDClinton, Howard, Tipton3 hr
Jun 11, 12:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningINDCarroll, Tippecanoe3 hr
Jun 11, 5:44 PM ESTTornado WarningINDClinton, Montgomery46 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHancock, Marion33 min
Jun 11, 6:45 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHancock, Henry60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.