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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Northern Indiana

May 19, 1998Fulton County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1998, 6:19 PM EST for Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 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: May 19, 1998, 6:19 PM EST (23:19 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1998, 7:10 PM EST
In force: 51 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 23:18 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, 6:45 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Kewanna, 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
May 19, 6:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

486 
WUUS53 KIWX 192320 RRA
SVRFWA
INC049-200010-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
619 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 710 PM EST

* AT 618 PM EST... SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  IN THE VICINITY OF ROCHESTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE...
  ATHENS
  TIOSA
  TALMA

GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS LIKELY  SEEK SAFE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

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

Local storm report, May 19, 5:26 PM EST, 53 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 CITY

Special weather statement, May 19, 5:42 PM EST, 37 minutes before

INZ012>018-020-022>027-032>034-200440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
540 PM EST (540 PM CDT) TUE MAY 19 1998

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN
INDIANA. IT IS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST/CDT.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE  WARSAW...FORT WAYNE...
LOGANSPORT...AND MARION.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. PARTICULARLY FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND TORRRENTIAL RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER
STORMS...IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN AND SOMETIMES DO DROP FROM SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE WARNING.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

REAUGH

Local storm report, May 19, 5:56 PM EST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
456 PM CST TUE MAY 19 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    KEWANNA                   IN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/19/98   FULTON                         KEWANNA FIRE DEPARTMENT
                                          REPORT

Local storm report, May 19, 6:11 PM EST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
611 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0610 PM    ROCHESTER                 IN   1 INCH HAIL
05/19/98   FULTON

0610 PM    ROCHESTER                 IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/19/98   FULTON

Local storm report, May 19, 6:11 PM EST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
611 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0610 PM    ROCHESTER                 IN   1 INCH HAIL
05/19/98   FULTON

0610 PM    ROCHESTER                 IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/19/98   FULTON

Local storm report, May 19, 6:15 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
615 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0603 PM    NORTH JUDSON              IN   TORNADO
05/19/98   STARKE                         REPORTED BY SEVERAL
                                          SPOTTERS. TOUCHED DOWN AND
                                          WENT BACK UP ALMOST
                                          IMMEDIATELY.  NO DAMAGE.

The 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, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	48 min
May 19, 6:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Starke	47 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.