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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 6:08 PM EST for Starke County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
- May 19, 1998, 6:08 PM EST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 6:55 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:10 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Bass Lake, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 19, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 192310 RRA TORFWA INC149-192355- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 608 PM EST (608 PM CDT) TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STARKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 655 PM CDT (655 PM EST) * AT 605 PM CDT... SPOTTERS NEAR NORTH JUDSON INDICATED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF KNOX OR 3 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF BASS LAKE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... BASS STATION BASS LAKE KNOX WINONA A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE... GO TO A SMA2LL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! TEH/JAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 36 min |
| May 19, 8:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 33 min |
| May 19, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 52 min |
| May 19, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 51 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.