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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 5:01 PM EST for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 5:01 PM EST (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 5:35 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 122159 RRA TORFWA INC181-122235- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 501 PM EST (501 PM CDT) FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 535 PM EST * AT 459 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... MONTICELLO NORWAY IDAVILLE BURNETTSVILLE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MES/JM!
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, 7:44 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, 5:04 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.