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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1998, 1:07 AM EST for Elkhart County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- Aug 25, 1998, 1:07 AM EST (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 1:55 AM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:25 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | South Bend, IN | THE DOORS WERE BLOWN OFF A SQUAD CAR. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WERE DOWN ACROSS TOWN AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY. ONE TREE FELL ONTO A HOME ALONG AUTEN ROAD WHICH CAUSED MODERATE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE HOME. |
| Aug 25, 1:30 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Bristol, IN | THIS WAS THE SAME TORNADO WHICH BEGAN IN NILES EARLIER. DAMAGE WAS EXTENSIVE TO TREES AND POWER LINES FROM THE ELKHART/CASS COUNTY LINE TO THE TOWN OF BRISTOL. SOME HOMES SUFFERED MAINLY MINOR DAMAGE TO SIDING...ROOFS AND GUTTERS. SOME OUTBUILDINGS HOWEVER WER |
| Aug 25, 1:35 AM EST | Tornado F1 | Dunlap, IN | THIS TORNADO LIKELY FORMED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE BOW ECHO WHICH PASSED THROUGH BERRIEN AND ST. JOSEPH COUNTIES EARLIER. IT TOUCHED DOWN ON TOP OF THE FORD DEALERSHIP ALONG HIGHWAY 33 TEARING OFF A LARGE PART OF THE ROOF AND ONE WALL. NEXT IT THREW A FO |
| Aug 25, 1:35 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart, IN | EXTENSIVE TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE OCCURRED ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY. SEVERAL BUILDINGS AND CARS IN DOWNTOWN GOSHEN SUSTAINED MINOR TO MODERATE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DUE TO LARGE TREES AND LIMBS CRASHING DOWN. BUSINESSES ON THE EAST SIDE OF GOSHEN ALONG HIGHWAY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 12:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 1480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913 WFUS53 KIWX 250610 RRA TORFWA INC039-141-250655- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 107 AM EST (107 AM CDT) TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHEASTERN ST JOSEPH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 155 AM EST * AT 106 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... ELKHART DUNLAP BRISTOL GOSHEN ALONG THE INDIANA TOLL ROAD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 49 min |
| Aug 25, 1:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 34 min |
| Aug 25, 1:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Steuben | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 1:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 2:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 48 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.