Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 1998, 10:01 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 7, 1998, 10:01 PM EST (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 1998, 10:35 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dubois County, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 7, 6:56 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
INZ076-083-084-089-080055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 756 PM EDT TUE APR 7 1998 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR DUBOIS... PERRY...ORANGE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR THIS EVENING HAVE DEVELOPED WELL NORTH OF A JASPER TO PAOLI LINE...OR ALONG A NORTHWARD MOVING WARM FRONT IN CENTRAL INDIANA. IT LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE NORTH OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES...BUT THUNDERSTORMS COULD STILL FIRE THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. STUREY
Special weather statement, Apr 7, 6:56 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
INZ076-083-084-089-080055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 756 PM EDT TUE APR 7 1998 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR DUBOIS... PERRY...ORANGE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR THIS EVENING HAVE DEVELOPED WELL NORTH OF A JASPER TO PAOLI LINE...OR ALONG A NORTHWARD MOVING WARM FRONT IN CENTRAL INDIANA. IT LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE NORTH OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES...BUT THUNDERSTORMS COULD STILL FIRE THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 9:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 10:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 33 min |
| Apr 7, 10:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 10:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 11:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 min |
| Apr 7, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 12:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 12:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 2:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry | 33 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.