Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 7:08 PM EST for Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
- May 19, 1998, 7:08 PM EST (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 7:55 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huntington County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
725 WFUS53 KIWX 200010 TORFWA INC069-200055- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 708 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 755 PM EST * AT 705 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HUNTINGTON MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. NICKEL SIZE WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BETWEEN BIPPUS AND ANDREWS AT 705 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... HUNTINGTON ANDREWS SIMPSON THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TEH/JAL
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 19, 6:30 PM EST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
630 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM MEDARYVILLE IN 1 INCH HAIL
05/19/98 PULASKI QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL
FROM 530PM EST TO 545PM
EST. REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENT.Special weather statement, May 19, 6:48 PM EST, 20 minutes before
OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-200450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 648 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO...TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT. SOME COMMUNITIES INLCUDED IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE DEFIANCE...PAULDING...AND OTTAWA. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND ESPECIALLY FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN AND SOMETIMES DO COME OUT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY LITTLE WARNING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
Special weather statement, May 19, 6:48 PM EST, 20 minutes before
OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-200450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 648 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO...TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT. SOME COMMUNITIES INLCUDED IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE DEFIANCE...PAULDING...AND OTTAWA. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND ESPECIALLY FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN AND SOMETIMES DO COME OUT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY LITTLE WARNING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
Local storm report, May 19, 6:49 PM EST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
649 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM URBANA IN TORNADO
05/19/98 WABASH REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT ONE HALF MILE
NORTHEAST OF URBANA.Local storm report, May 19, 7:00 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
700 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0652 PM URBANA IN 90 MPH TSTM GUST
05/19/98 WABASH REPORTED BY SHERIFFLocal storm report, May 19, 7:06 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH WEBSTER INDIANA
706 PM EST TUE MAY 19 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM BIPPUS IN .88 INCH HAIL
05/19/98 HUNTINGTON REPORTED BY SHERIFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 25 min |
| May 19, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 16 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.