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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Northern Indiana

June 11, 1998Elkhart County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1998, 7:44 PM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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, 7:44 PM EST (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1998, 8:15 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Elkhart County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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, 7:49 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris, 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 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.

732 
WFUS53 KIWX 120043 RRA
TORFWA
INC039-120115-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
744 PM EST THU JUN 11 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 815 PM EST

* AT 741 PM EST... LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 5
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPPANEE OR 4 MILES WEST OF MILFORD MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  MILFORD
  NEW PARIS
  BENTON
  MILLERSBURG

A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND SOUTH OF NAPPANEE AT 738 PM.
IT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE.

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

JAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Grant	46 min
Jun 11, 7:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	28 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

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.