Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 6:18 PM EDT for Putnam County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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 12, 1998, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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 12, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Ottoville, OH | 60 MPH WIND GUSTS REPORTED ACROSS COUNTY. NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH DAMAGE TO VEHICLES AND HOUSES. |
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 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 122217 RRA TORFWA OHC137-161-122310- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 518 PM EST FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO VAN WERT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 710 PM EDT (610 PM EST) * AT 617 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF OTTAWA OR 5 MILES WEST OF CLOVERDALE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... SCOTT WETSEL OTTAWA VAN WERT OTTOVILLE 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 12, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Williams | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Paulding | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry | 37 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.