Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 12:35 PM EST for Noble County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 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 31, 1998, 12:35 PM EST (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 1:25 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Noble County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 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 31, 12:40 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Albion, IN | |
| May 31, 12:45 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Kendallville, IN | |
| May 31, 1:10 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Ligonier, 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 31, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
039 WFUS53 KIWX 311734 RRA TORFWA INC113-311825- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1235 PM EST SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NOBLE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 125 PM EST * AT 1234 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALLVILLE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... LIGONIER KENDALLVILLE ALBION AVILLA IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. JAH/TL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 36 min |
| May 31, 12:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 51 min |
| May 31, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 48 min |
| May 31, 12:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 46 min |
| May 31, 1:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| May 31, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 48 min |
| May 31, 1:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 50 min |
| May 31, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 46 min |
| May 31, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 62 min |
| May 31, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 46 min |
| May 31, 2:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 min |
| May 31, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 49 min |
| May 31, 3:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| May 31, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 32 min |
| May 31, 4:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Jay | 31 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.