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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1998, 8:29 PM EST for Tipton 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 11, 1998, 8:29 PM EST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tipton 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 11, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 120128 RRA TORIND INC159-120200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 829 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TIPTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 900 PM EST * AT 825 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF KOKOMO NEAR SHARPSVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH . * TOWNS IN THE TORNADO PATH INCLUDE... WINDFALL NEVADA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Howard | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 7:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Randolph | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 7:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Madison | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 7:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 8:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 8:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Howard | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 9:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 4:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 4:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Howard | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 6:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vigo | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 32 min |
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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.