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Tornado Warning 77, NWS Northern Indiana

July 19, 1998Elkhart County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1998, 5:51 PM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 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 19, 1998, 5:51 PM EST (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 1998, 6:40 PM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Whole counties

County Elkhart County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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 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, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 192252
TORFWA
INC039-192340-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 640 PM EST

* AT 551 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKHART MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  BRISTOL
  GOSHEN
  MIDDLEBURY
  MILLERSBURG
  ELKHART

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! ACT QUICKLY. SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

TEH/JAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 6:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	46 min
Jul 19, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Marshall, Starke	48 min
Jul 19, 4:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	49 min
Jul 19, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	48 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	50 min
Jul 19, 4:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Miami, Wabash	62 min
Jul 19, 4:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	62 min
Jul 19, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Noble, Whitley	50 min
Jul 19, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington	61 min
Jul 19, 5:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Wells	47 min
Jul 19, 6:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	47 min
Jul 19, 6:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford	48 min
Jul 19, 6:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Jay	64 min
Jul 19, 6:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	50 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.