Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 477
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 31, 1998, 12:15 PM EST for 47 counties in Indiana; 27 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1998, 12:15 PM EST (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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.
Warnings issued inside it
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 48 min |
| May 31, 12:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 46 min |
| May 31, 12:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Noble | 50 min |
| May 31, 12:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 46 min |
| May 31, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Henry | 46 min |
| May 31, 1:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| May 31, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 48 min |
| May 31, 1:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding | 49 min |
| May 31, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 58 min |
| May 31, 1:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 45 min |
| May 31, 1:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 50 min |
| May 31, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 46 min |
| May 31, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Henry | 50 min |
| May 31, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 62 min |
| May 31, 1:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 59 min |
| May 31, 1:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Putnam | 64 min |
| May 31, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford | 46 min |
| May 31, 2:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 min |
| May 31, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 60 min |
| May 31, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 65 min |
| May 31, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 59 min |
| May 31, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 49 min |
| May 31, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Van Wert | 45 min |
| May 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 50 min |
| May 31, 3:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| May 31, 3:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| May 31, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 32 min |
| May 31, 4:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Jay | 31 min |
| May 31, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 35 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 40 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 34 min |
| May 31, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 48 min |
| May 31, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 62 min |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Fairfield, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison and 12 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.