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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1998, 5:32 PM EST for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- May 19, 1998, 5:32 PM EST (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 6:20 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:32 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Kewanna, IN | |
| May 19, 6:05 PM EST | Hail 1 | Rochester, IN | |
| May 19, 6:10 PM EST | Hail 1 | Rochester, IN | |
| May 19, 6:10 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Rochester, IN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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.
167 WUUS53 KIWX 192234 RRA SVRFWA INC049-192320- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 532 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 620 PM EST * AT 531 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUEGRASS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... BLUEGRASS PERSHING ROCHESTER SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. TEH/JAL
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, May 19, 1:32 PM EST, 4 hours before
INZ003-004-012>015-020-022-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 132 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 700PM EST/CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE LAPORTE..ST. JOSEPH..STARKE..MARSHALL..PULASKI..FULTON..WHITE AND CASS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN AND EASTERN IOWA AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS ILLINOIS AND INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REMEMBER..A THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JAL
Special weather statement, May 19, 1:32 PM EST, 4 hours before
INZ003-004-012>015-020-022-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 132 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 700PM EST/CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE LAPORTE..ST. JOSEPH..STARKE..MARSHALL..PULASKI..FULTON..WHITE AND CASS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN AND EASTERN IOWA AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS ILLINOIS AND INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REMEMBER..A THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JAL
Local storm report, May 19, 5:26 PM EST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
426 PM CST TUE MAY 19 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0522 PM STAR CITY IN .75 INCH HAIL
05/19/98 PULASKI SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME
SIZE HAIL IN STAR CITY
0523 PM STAR CITY IN .75 INCH HAIL
05/19/98 PULASKI SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME
SIZE HAIL IN STAR CITYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 36 min |
| May 19, 8:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 33 min |
| May 19, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 52 min |
| May 19, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Starke | 47 min |
| May 19, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 51 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.