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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Northern Indiana

July 19, 1998Putnam County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1998, 6:47 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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: Jul 19, 1998, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 1998, 7:35 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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
Jul 19, 7:40 PM EDT	Hail 1	Columbus Grove, OH
Jul 19, 7:45 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Gilboa, OH	BRICK HOME BADLY DAMAGED. ROOF TORN OFF AND LARGE CHUNKS OF BRICK CHIMNEY STREWN ABOUT YARD. TREE WAS FELLED ON CAMPER-TRAILER.

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
Jul 19, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 192248
TORFWA
OHC137-192335-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
547 PM EST SUN JUL 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 735 PM EDT (635 PM EST)

* AT 645 PM EDT... SPOTTERS REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF OTTAWA OR 8 MILES NORTH OF KALIDA MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  KIEFIERVILLE
  GLANDORF
  OTTAWA
  LEIPSIC
  COLUMBUS GROVE

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS TORNADO
WARNING REPLACES THE EARLIER ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING.

TEH/JAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Paulding	50 min
Jul 19, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Paulding	47 min
Jul 19, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Putnam	52 min
Jul 19, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance	47 min
Jul 19, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Paulding, Van Wert	50 min
Jul 19, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	49 min
Jul 19, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	46 min
Jul 19, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Allen	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.