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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Northern Indiana

May 3, 1998Huntington County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1998, 4:37 PM EST for Huntington County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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
May 3, 1998, 4:37 PM EST (21:37 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1998, 5:10 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Huntington County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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.

349 
WFUS53 KIWX 032138 RRA
TORFWA
INC069-032210-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
437 PM EST SUN MAY 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 510 PM EST

* AT 436 PM EST... SPOTTERS REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES
  NORTH OF HUNTINGTON OR 3 MILES EAST OF BRAKEN MOVING  NORTHWEST
  AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  BIPPUS                NEAR 437 PM EST
  BRAKEN                NEAR 447 PM EST

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS
NOT AVAILABLE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

TEH/JM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 3:21 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen34 min
May 3, 4:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko35 min
May 3, 4:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton35 min
May 3, 5:00 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen35 min
May 3, 5:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningIWXAllen2 hr
May 3, 5:34 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen36 min
May 3, 5:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Whitley33 min
May 3, 6:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko36 min

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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.