Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1998, 7:09 PM EST for Grant County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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, 7:09 PM EST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 7:55 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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, 7:21 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Swayzee, IN | THIS TORNADO WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE GREENTOWN TORNADO IN HOWARD COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS WEAKENING AS IT CROSSED INTO GRANT COUNTY BUT CAUSED EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH AND SEVERLY DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES IN SWAYZEE. MANY OF THE HOMES SUFFERED DAMA |
| Jun 11, 7:58 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Fairmount, IN | THIS TORNADO TRACK WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE TORNADO WHICH BEGAN NEAR THE TOWN OF ELWOOD IN MADISON COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS WEAKENING AS IT CROSSED INTO GRANT COUNTY BUT CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO SEVERAL FARMS. ONE FARMSTEAD SUFFERED A DESTROYED BARN AND AN |
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
603 WFUS53 KIWX 120018 TORFWA INC053-120055- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...RETRANSMITTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 709 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 755 PM EST * AT 707 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... NORMAL SWAYZEE SWEETSER GAS CITY MARION A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND JUST SOUTHEAST OF KOKOMO PRODUCING DAMAGE AT 707 PM EST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JAH/JM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 7:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 7:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 7:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 8:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 9:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 2:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 3:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Marshall | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen, Whitley | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 4:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Whitley | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 4:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 4:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 5:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 5:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.