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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 1998, 10:23 AM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 1, 1998, 10:23 AM EST (15:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1998, 11:10 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elkhart County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 10:33 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Wakarusa, IN | Power lines down near Wakarusa. Trees down 4 miles WSW of Goshen and 3-8 miles NE of Goshen. |
| Apr 1, 10:42 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | (Gsh)Goshen Arpt, IN | Goshen Airport ASOS report |
| Apr 1, 10:49 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | New Paris, IN | Trees down 4 miles SSW of New Paris. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
977 WUUS53 KIWX 011526 RRA SVRFWA INC039-011610- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1023 AM EST WED APR 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1110 AM EST * AT 1021 AM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKARUSA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... WAKARUSA NEAR 1019 AM EST ELKHART NEAR 1027 AM EST GOSHEN NEAR 1030 AM EST MILLERSBURG NEAR 1034 AM EST BRISTOL NEAR 1036 AM EST MIDDLEBURY NEAR 1039 AM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY ADOLPHSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 10:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 10:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 10:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 52 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.