Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 72, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1998, 11:57 PM EST for Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 3, 1998, 11:57 PM EST (04:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1998, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 040457 RRA TORFWA INC103-040545- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1157 PM EST FRI JUL 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MIAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1245 AM EST * AT 1155 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PERU OR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEXICO MOVING EAST AT 35 MnPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... MEXICO DENVER CHILE PERU THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TEH/JLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 9:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 9:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Starke | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 9:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 9:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 10:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 10:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 21 min |
| Jul 3, 10:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 10:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Fulton, Miami | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 11:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 11:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 11:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 12:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 1:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:34 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami |
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.