Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 85, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1998, 1:31 AM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 25, 1998, 1:31 AM EST (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 2:05 AM EST
- In force
- 34 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 06:31 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, 1:35 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, 6.5 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.
- 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.
046 WFUS53 KIWX 250633 RRA TORFWA INC039-250705- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 131 AM EST TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ELKHART COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 205 AM EST * AT 130 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELKHART OR 4 MILES WEST OF MILLERSBURG MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... MILLERSBURG BENTON ALONG US ROUTE 33 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, 1:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 1:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 49 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.