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Tornado Watch 555

June 12, 199821 counties in Indiana; 47 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 12, 1998, 3:45 PM EST for 21 counties in Indiana; 47 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 1998, 3:45 PM EST (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1998, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 68 counties

Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Brown County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Highland County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 4:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	36 min
Jun 12, 4:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas	47 min
Jun 12, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	63 min
Jun 12, 4:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Paulding	35 min
Jun 12, 4:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Henry	37 min
Jun 12, 4:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	63 min
Jun 12, 5:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Putnam, Van Wert	52 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	50 min
Jun 12, 5:41 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wood	119 min
Jun 12, 5:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Seneca	61 min
Jun 12, 5:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	60 min
Jun 12, 6:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie	49 min
Jun 12, 6:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Seneca	51 min
Jun 12, 6:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Marion	48 min
Jun 12, 6:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	64 min
Jun 12, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	79 min
Jun 12, 6:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	61 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Delaware, Madison	33 min
Jun 12, 6:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock	50 min
Jun 12, 6:48 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain	47 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	95 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	45 min
Jun 12, 6:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Richland	2 hr
Jun 12, 6:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henry	32 min
Jun 12, 7:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	96 min
Jun 12, 7:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Randolph	35 min
Jun 12, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Johnson, Morgan	49 min
Jun 12, 7:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Rush, Shelby	49 min
Jun 12, 7:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan, Shelby	27 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	50 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	50 min
Jun 12, 7:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	92 min
Jun 12, 7:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Decatur	46 min
Jun 12, 7:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	28 min
Jun 12, 7:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	44 min
Jun 12, 8:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	57 min
Jun 12, 8:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	49 min
Jun 12, 8:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	48 min
Jun 12, 8:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene	44 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	47 min
Jun 12, 8:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	48 min
Jun 12, 8:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton, Warren	45 min
Jun 12, 9:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	57 min
Jun 12, 9:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Madison	51 min
Jun 12, 9:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Highland	54 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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
Jun 11, 7:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Decatur, Delaware and 11 more	5 hr
Jun 12, 2:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay and 36 more	6 hr
Jun 12, 6:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 26 more	5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.