Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Northern Indiana

June 27, 1998Henry County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 5:02 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. 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
Jun 27, 1998, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 27, 5:05 PM EDTHail 1Mc Clure, OH

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 27, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2641 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 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
2641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.6

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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.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 11:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1000 AM EST SAT JUN 27 1998

AREA OF TSRA HAS MOVED E OUT OF FA INTO WRN LK ERIE.  SKIES REMAIN
MOSTLY CLOUDY AS REMNANTS OF MCS OVER ERN GREAT LAKES REGION
CONTINUES TO WEAKEN AND MOVE TO SE.  SKIES TO W OF FA ARE MOSTLY
SUNNY SO EXPECT GOOD AFTERNOON HEATING AS SKIES START TO CLEAR.
ATMOS FAIRLY UNSTABLE WITH LI/S OF -10 ACROSS CNTRL IL AND SRN IN.
WILL NOT TAKE MUCH SURFACE HEATING FOR TCU/S AND TSRA TO DEVELOP
AGAIN THIS AFTN.  SOME TSTMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.  FORECASTS COVER
THIS WELL.  EXCEPT NEAR LK MI OBS MATCH FWC TEMPS WELL.

.IWX...NONE.

OHARA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:32 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
OHZ002-005-016-025-280200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
332 PM EST SAT JUN 27 1998

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.
COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH IN OHIO ARE FULTON...HENRY...PUTNAM
AND ALLEN.  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...
LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OHARA
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:32 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
OHZ002-005-016-025-280200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
332 PM EST SAT JUN 27 1998

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.
COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH IN OHIO ARE FULTON...HENRY...PUTNAM
AND ALLEN.  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...
LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OHARA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Whitley46 min
Jun 26, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWells36 min
Jun 27, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton45 min
Jun 27, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen33 min
Jun 27, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHillsdale31 min
Jun 27, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHillsdale45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.