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Tornado Watch 219

April 15, 1998Crawford County, Lawrence County, Wabash County, Illinois; 48 counties in Indiana; 23 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 15, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT for Crawford County, Lawrence County, Wabash County, Illinois; 48 counties in Indiana; 23 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 74 counties

Crawford County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

Warnings issued inside it

32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Lawrence, Martin	50 min
Apr 15, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	43 min
Apr 15, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Crawford	51 min
Apr 15, 9:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Monroe	3 hr
Apr 15, 9:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Brown	3 hr
Apr 15, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Franklin	2 hr
Apr 15, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Ripley	46 min
Apr 15, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings	4 hr
Apr 15, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Lawrence	4 hr
Apr 15, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	27 min
Apr 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, White	4 hr
Apr 15, 11:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	2 hr
Apr 15, 11:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson	3 hr
Apr 15, 11:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Franklin	118 min
Apr 15, 11:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Union	35 min
Apr 16, 12:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pike, Warrick	46 min
Apr 16, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	32 min
Apr 16, 12:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	34 min
Apr 16, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh	3 hr
Apr 16, 12:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley	115 min
Apr 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Martin	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson	49 min
Apr 16, 12:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings	4 hr
Apr 16, 1:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	23 min
Apr 16, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	30 min
Apr 16, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jennings	46 min
Apr 16, 1:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	4 hr
Apr 16, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	34 min
Apr 16, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union, Webster	35 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair	4 hr
Apr 15, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 12 more	5 hr
Apr 15, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ohio, Switzerland	6 hr
Apr 16, 1:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Dubois and 15 more	5 hr
Apr 16, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko and 7 more
Apr 16, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn and 33 more	6 hr
Apr 16, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay and 21 more	6 hr
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calloway	6 hr
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 47 more	7 hr

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.