Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Northern Indiana

June 26, 1998Elkhart County, LaGrange County, Noble County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 7:31 AM EST for Elkhart County, LaGrange County, Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 26, 1998, 7:31 AM EST (12:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 8:05 AM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Elkhart County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 261231 RRA
SVRFWA
INC039-087-113-261305-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
731 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  LAGRANGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA
  NORTHERN NOBLE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA

* UNTIL 805 AM EST

* AT 729 AM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR GOSHEN TO TOPEKA. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.



* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...

  MILLERSBURG
  LIGONIER
  WOLCOTTVILLE


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

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, Jun 26, 2:19 AM EST, 5 hours 12 minutes before

MIZ077>081-260731-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
219 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 671 HAS EXPIRED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
EXPIRED AT 300 AM EDT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED
BUT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA ARE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS.

TAL

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:22 AM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-262122-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
622 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998

...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN...NORTHWEST OHIO...AND MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER
SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN..NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO.

A STATIONARY FRONT AT THE SURFACE EXTENDING ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER
MICHIGAN COMBINED WITH ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL SERVE AS
THE FOCUS FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE BEST CHANCE
THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT AS INITIAL DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR TO THE
WEST DURING THE AFTERNOON. PRIMARY THREAT FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINS FROM LAST NIGHTS
STORMS WILL ALSO INCREASE THE THREAT FOR FLOODING IF STORMS DEVELOP
OVER THE SAME AREA AGAIN TONIGHT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AS THUNDERSTORMS START TO
DEVELOP.  STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR LATER UPDATES AND
STATEMENTS ON THIS AFTERNOONS POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER.

JAL

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:31 AM EST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
631 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998

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

1120 PM    WHITE PIGEON              MI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/25/98   ST JOSEPH

0100 AM                              MI   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   BRANCH                         SEVERAL TREES DOWN
                                          THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY

0115 AM    ANGOLA                    IN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   STEUBEN

0150 AM    NEW CARLISLE              IN   FLOODING
06/26/98   ST JOSEPH                      BRIDGE UNDER WATER IN NEW
                                          CARLISLE

0500 AM    COLDWATER                 MI   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BRANCH                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          ON INTERSTATE 69 NEAR
                                          COLDWATER

0500 AM    QUINCY                    MI   .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BRANCH                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          FROM SPOTTER IN QUINCY

0520 AM    CAMDEN                    MI   .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   HILLSDALE                      NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          FROM SPOTTER IN CAMDEN

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:31 AM EST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
631 AM EST FRI JUN 26 1998

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

1120 PM    WHITE PIGEON              MI   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/25/98   ST JOSEPH

0100 AM                              MI   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   BRANCH                         SEVERAL TREES DOWN
                                          THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY

0115 AM    ANGOLA                    IN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   STEUBEN

0150 AM    NEW CARLISLE              IN   FLOODING
06/26/98   ST JOSEPH                      BRIDGE UNDER WATER IN NEW
                                          CARLISLE

0500 AM    COLDWATER                 MI   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BRANCH                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          ON INTERSTATE 69 NEAR
                                          COLDWATER

0500 AM    QUINCY                    MI   .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BRANCH                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          FROM SPOTTER IN QUINCY

0520 AM    CAMDEN                    MI   .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   HILLSDALE                      NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          FROM SPOTTER IN CAMDEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 10:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	31 min
Jun 25, 11:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Saint Joseph	46 min
Jun 26, 12:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	46 min
Jun 26, 1:08 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	47 min
Jun 26, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	36 min
Jun 26, 4:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Whitley	35 min
Jun 26, 5:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1998 Every 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.