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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 6:34 PM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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
- May 3, 1998, 6:34 PM EST (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 7:10 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kosciusko County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
089 WUUS53 KIWX 032335 RRA SVRFWA INC085-040010- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 634 PM EST SUN MAY 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 710 PM EST * AT 633 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF WARSAW OR 4 MILES NORTH OF LEESBURG MOVING WEST SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... LEESBURG CLUNETTE SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. TEH/JM
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
Local storm report, May 3, 3:35 PM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
235 PM CST SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN CONFIRMED TOUCHDOWN BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT ALONG RT30 AND
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
313 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN TOUCHDOWN 3NE MONROEVILLE
325 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 J ALLEN BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR
MONROEVILLELocal storm report, May 3, 3:35 PM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
235 PM CST SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN CONFIRMED TOUCHDOWN BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT ALONG RT30 AND
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
313 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN TOUCHDOWN 3NE MONROEVILLE
325 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 J ALLEN BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR
MONROEVILLELocal storm report, May 3, 3:35 PM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
235 PM CST SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN
321 PM NEW HAVEN IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN CONFIRMED TOUCHDOWN BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT ALONG RT30 AND
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
313 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 ALLEN TOUCHDOWN 3NE MONROEVILLE
325 PM MONROEVILLE IN TORNADO
05/03/98 H ALLEN BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR
MONROEVILLEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 35 min |
| May 3, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 35 min |
| May 3, 4:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 35 min |
| May 3, 5:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen | 2 hr |
| May 3, 5:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 36 min |
| May 3, 5:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Whitley | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.