Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 10:44 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 25, 1998, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties LaPorte County, IN, Berrien County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 3027 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WUUS53 KIWX 260344 RRA SVRFWA INC091-MIC021-260415- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1044 PM EST (1044 PM CDT) THU JUN 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERRIEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN LAPORTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT (1115 PM CDT OR 1115 PM EST) * AT 1139 PM EDT (1039 PM CDT)... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF BENTON HARBOR MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS SEVERE STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE BENTON HARBOR AND MICHIGAN CITY AREAS AROUND 1055 PM EST/1155 PM EDT. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. TAL/JLA
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, Jun 25, 8:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
MIZ077>081-260630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 806 PM EST THU JUN 25 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 300 AM EDT. SOME OF THE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BERRIEN...CASS...ST JOSEPH... BRANCH...AND HILLSDALE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TAL
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
MIZ077>081-260630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 806 PM EST THU JUN 25 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 300 AM EDT. SOME OF THE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BERRIEN...CASS...ST JOSEPH... BRANCH...AND HILLSDALE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.