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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana

March 28, 1998Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1998, 8:26 AM EST for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
Mar 28, 1998, 8:26 AM EST (13:26 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1998, 9:00 AM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Kosciusko County, IN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 28, 8:40 AM ESTThunderstorm WindOswego, INtrees blown down in town. shed destroyed.

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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.

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 281328 RRA
TORFWA
INC085-281400-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
826 AM EST SAT MAR 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 900 AM EST

* AT 825 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARSAW OR 5 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF
  LEESBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  LEESBURG              NEAR 820 AM EST
  GRAVELTON             NEAR 822 AM EST
  OSWEGO                NEAR 822 AM EST
  MILFORD               NEAR 824 AM EST
  SYRACUSE              NEAR 829 AM EST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LINDQUIST/HOLSTEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 8:06 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Marshall34 min
Mar 28, 9:17 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXMiami33 min
Mar 28, 9:23 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXWabash52 min
Mar 28, 9:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington33 min
Mar 28, 9:51 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXWhitley34 min
Mar 28, 10:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen30 min
Mar 28, 10:58 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXWells32 min
Mar 28, 11:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams36 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.