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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Northern Indiana

May 19, 1998Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 6:27 PM EST for Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports 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, 6:27 PM EST (23:27 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1998, 7:15 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

Counties Miami County, IN, Wabash County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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
May 19, 6:45 PM EST	Tornado F0	Urbana, IN
May 19, 6:52 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 79	Urbana, IN
May 19, 7:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 79	Wabash, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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.

517 
WFUS53 KIWX 192329 RRA
TORFWA
INC103-169-200015-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
627 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN WABASH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 715 PM EST

* AT 626 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER OR 1 MILE SOUTH
  SOUTHWEST OF JAMSVILLE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  JAMSVILLE
  LAKETON
  URBANA
  NORTH MANCHESTER
  SERVIA

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

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, 6:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Starke	47 min
May 19, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	51 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.