Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 4:49 PM CDT for Newton County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- May 19, 1998, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lake Vlg, IN | A tree fell on a house in Lake Village. Strong winds tore part of a roof off of a house and damaged a machine shed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
829 WFUS1 KCHI 192151 RRA TORCHI INC111-192219- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 449 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA * UNTIL 520 PM CDT * AT 451 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOROCCO ON THE ILLINOIS/INDIANA STATE LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ENOS BY 500 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR $$ DICKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 32 min |
| May 19, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Newton | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 39 min |
| May 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper | 45 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.