Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 2:49 PM EST for Allen County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 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 29, 1998, 2:49 PM EST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 3:40 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
315 WFUS53 KIWX 291948 RRA TORFWA INC003-292040- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 249 PM EST MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 340 PM EST * AT 247 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LOWER HUNTINGTON RD IN FORT WAYNE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... FORT WAYNE NEW HAVEN TOWNLEY EDGERTON MONROEVILLE SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. JAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 8:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 9:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | White | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 11:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 1:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Jay | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski, Starke, White | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 47 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.