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Tornado Warning 86, NWS Northern Indiana

October 6, 1998Elkhart County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Oct 6, 1998, 6:24 PM EST for Elkhart County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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
Oct 6, 1998, 6:24 PM EST (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 1998, 7:10 PM EST
In force
46 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 23:23 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 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.

398 
WFUS53 KIWX 062321 RRA
TORFWA
INC039-070010-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
624 PM EST TUE OCT 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 710 PM EST

* AT 622 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR AT NORTH WEBSTER INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELKHART OR 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MIDDLEBURY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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

TAL/TEH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange50 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.