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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1998, 6:27 PM EST for Pulaski County, Starke County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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
- Jun 11, 1998, 6:27 PM EST (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:28 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Ripley, IN | 4 TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHERS SUFFERED MINOR TO MAJOR DAMAGE, ONE HOME AND BARN DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE. TORNADO STARTED IN RIPLEY AND TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST TO MONTEREY BEFORE IT LIFTED. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE OCCU |
| Jun 11, 6:34 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bass Lake, IN | NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 6598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
331 WFUS53 KIWX 112326 RRA TORFWA INC131-149-120000- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 627 PM EST (627 PM CDT) THU JUN 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN NORTHERN INDIANA SOUTHEASTERN STARKE COUNTY IN NORTHERN INDIANA * UNTIL 700 PM EST (700 PM CDT) * AT 625 PM EST (625 PM CDT)... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINAMAC MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... RIPLEY BEARDSTOWN BASS LAKE WINONA MONTEREY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JAH/JM
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
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>025-032-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 449 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/EST... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/EST. SOME OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... PULASKI..LAPORTE..STARKE..WHITE..CASS..ELKHART..FULTON..KOSCIUSKO.. MARSHALL..MIAMI..ST. JOSEPH..WABASH..ALLEN..DEKALB..HUNTINGTON.. LAGRANGE..NOBLE..STEUBEN..WHITLEY AND GRANT. TORNADOES..LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JAL
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>025-032-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 449 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/EST... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/EST. SOME OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... PULASKI..LAPORTE..STARKE..WHITE..CASS..ELKHART..FULTON..KOSCIUSKO.. MARSHALL..MIAMI..ST. JOSEPH..WABASH..ALLEN..DEKALB..HUNTINGTON.. LAGRANGE..NOBLE..STEUBEN..WHITLEY AND GRANT. TORNADOES..LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Starke | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 5:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke | 42 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.