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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 5:58 PM EST for Blackford County, Indiana. It was in force for 17 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 29, 1998, 5:58 PM EST (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blackford County, 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 29, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 292256 RRA SVRFWA INC009-292315- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 558 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 * UNTIL 615 PM EST * AT 557 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF HARTFORD CITY OR 2 MILES EAST OF MILLGROVE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS SEVERE STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGnING WINDS. MES
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 29, 2:35 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
INZ008-009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ004-005-015-016-024- 025-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 237 PM EST (237 PM CDT) FRI MAY 29 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST (900 PM EDT) FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... STARKE...MARSHALL...KOSCIUSKO...NOBLE...DEKALB...PULASKI...FULTON... WHITLEY...ALLEN...WHITE...CASS...MIAMI...WABASH...HUNTINGTON... GRANT...BLACKFORD...WELLS...ADAMS...JAY NORTHWEST OHIO COUNTIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE... DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT...ALLEN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LINDQUIST
Special weather statement, May 29, 4:46 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 446 PM EST FRI MAY 29 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR DEFIANCE...HENRY...PAULDING... AND PUTNAM COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR VAN WERT AND ALLEN COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS A PORTION OF NORTHWEST OHIO. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS VAN WERT AND ALLEN COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVENING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. LINDQUIST
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, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 35 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.