Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 5:11 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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 26, 1998, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Wert County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 12:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-262122- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1130 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHWEST OHIO...AND MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN..NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN LAKE HURON TO NORTHERN IOWA WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING...PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AS THUNDERSTORMS START TO DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR LATER UPDATES AND STATEMENTS ON THIS POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. OHARA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 8:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 1:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 5:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 6:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.