Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 2:52 PM EST for Jay County, Indiana. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 2:52 PM EST (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 3:55 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jay County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:08 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Redkey, IN | Golfball size hail was reported at Redkey by State Police and at Como by an ambulance driver |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
648 WUUS53 KIWX 161955 RRA SVRFWA INC075-162055- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 252 PM EST THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JAY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 355 PM EST * AT 252 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF PORTLAND OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUNKIRK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... DUNKIRK REDKEY COMO PORTLAND BRYANT SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. JAH/TEH
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, Apr 16, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
INZ005>009-016>018-023>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004- 005-015-016-024-025-170020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1220 PM EST THU APR 16 1998 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... NORTHEAST INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 700 PM EST OR 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... CASS... ST JOSEPH... BRANCH... AND HILLSDALE... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST INDIANA... ELKHART...KOSCIUSKO...MIAMI...LAGRANGE...NOBLE...WHITLEY... WABASH...HUNTINGTON...GRANT...STEUBEN...DEKALB...ALLEN....WELLS... ADAMS...BLACKFORD... AND JAY... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WILLIAMS...FULTON...DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT... AND ALLEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO PERU THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. JAH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
INZ005>009-016>018-023>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004- 005-015-016-024-025-170020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO EXCLUDE 3 INDIANA COS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1220 PM EST THU APR 16 1998 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... NORTHEAST INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 700 PM EST OR 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... CASS... ST JOSEPH... BRANCH... AND HILLSDALE... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST INDIANA... ELKHART...KOSCIUSKO...MIAMI...LAGRANGE...NOBLE...WHITLEY... WABASH...HUNTINGTON...STEUBEN...DEKALB...ALLEN....WELLS... ADAMS. AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WILLIAMS...FULTON...DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT... AND ALLEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO PERU THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. JAH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
INZ005>009-016>018-023>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004- 005-015-016-024-025-170020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1220 PM EST THU APR 16 1998 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... NORTHEAST INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 700 PM EST OR 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... CASS... ST JOSEPH... BRANCH... AND HILLSDALE... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST INDIANA... ELKHART...KOSCIUSKO...MIAMI...LAGRANGE...NOBLE...WHITLEY... WABASH...HUNTINGTON...GRANT...STEUBEN...DEKALB...ALLEN....WELLS... ADAMS...BLACKFORD... AND JAY... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WILLIAMS...FULTON...DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT... AND ALLEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO PERU THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. JAH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
INZ005>009-016>018-023>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004- 005-015-016-024-025-170020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO EXCLUDE 3 INDIANA COS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1220 PM EST THU APR 16 1998 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... NORTHEAST INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 700 PM EST OR 800 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... CASS... ST JOSEPH... BRANCH... AND HILLSDALE... AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST INDIANA... ELKHART...KOSCIUSKO...MIAMI...LAGRANGE...NOBLE...WHITLEY... WABASH...HUNTINGTON...STEUBEN...DEKALB...ALLEN....WELLS... ADAMS. AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WILLIAMS...FULTON...DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT... AND ALLEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SOUTH BEND TO PERU THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHERN INDIANA... AND NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. JAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Jay | 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.