Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 1:50 PM EST for Blackford County, Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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
- May 29, 1998, 1:50 PM EST (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 2:25 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:55 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Fowlerton, IN | |
| May 29, 1:59 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Fowlerton, IN | |
| May 29, 2:08 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Shamrock Lakes, 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
251 WUUS53 KIWX 291848 RRA SVRFWA INC009-053-291925- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 150 PM EST FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BLACKFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 225 PM EST * AT 149 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HARTFORD CITY OR 3 MILES WEST OF MATTHEWS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... MATTHEWS SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. JAH/TAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 49 min |
| May 29, 12:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Marshall | 51 min |
| May 29, 1:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 64 min |
| May 29, 1:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 32 min |
| May 29, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 17 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.