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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Northern Indiana

March 28, 1998Wabash County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1998, 9:23 AM EST for Wabash County, Indiana. It was in force for 52 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
Mar 28, 1998, 9:23 AM EST (14:23 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1998, 10:15 AM EST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Wabash County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 479 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
479 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
573 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.

994 
WFUS53 KIWX 281426 RRA
TORFWA
INC169-281510-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
923 AM EST SAT MAR 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 AM EST

* AT 921 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH MANCHESTER OR 7
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHVALLEY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  RICHVALLEY            NEAR 926 AM EST
  TREATY                NEAR 931 AM EST
  WABASH                NEAR 932 AM EST
  SPEICHERVILLE         NEAR 936 AM EST
  URBANA                NEAR 938 AM EST
  LINCOLNVILLE          NEAR 938 AM EST
  LAGRO                 NEAR 938 AM EST
  SERVIA                NEAR 943 AM EST

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

LINDQUIST/HOLSTEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 8:06 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Marshall34 min
Mar 28, 8:26 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXKosciusko34 min
Mar 28, 9:17 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXMiami33 min
Mar 28, 9:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington33 min
Mar 28, 9:51 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXWhitley34 min
Mar 28, 10:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen30 min
Mar 28, 10:58 AM ESTTornado WarningIWXWells32 min
Mar 28, 11:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.