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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 8:01 PM EST for Daviess County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:01 PM EST (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:35 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Daviess County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, IN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 2226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1384 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 300101 RRA TORIND INC027-300135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 801 PM EST MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIESS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 835 PM EST * AT 758 PM EST... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF VINCENNES AT EDWARDSPORT... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PLAINVILLE BY 810 PM EPSOM BY 815 PM EST A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! LC &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Putnam | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 7:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 8:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 49 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.