Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 1998

Tornado Watch 890

November 10, 199826 counties in Illinois; 41 counties in Indiana; 30 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 10, 1998, 6:00 AM CST for 26 counties in Illinois; 41 counties in Indiana; 30 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 1998, 6:00 AM CST (12:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1998, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 97 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery 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, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 6:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas	41 min
Nov 10, 6:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	41 min
Nov 10, 6:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	42 min
Nov 10, 7:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Jasper	52 min
Nov 10, 7:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	47 min
Nov 10, 7:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	62 min
Nov 10, 7:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	62 min
Nov 10, 7:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	52 min
Nov 10, 7:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Vermillion, Vigo	66 min
Nov 10, 7:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain	66 min
Nov 10, 8:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan	46 min
Nov 10, 8:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Parke	63 min
Nov 10, 8:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Knox	63 min
Nov 10, 8:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	47 min
Nov 10, 8:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Montgomery, Putnam	44 min
Nov 10, 8:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg	43 min
Nov 10, 8:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Owen	65 min
Nov 10, 8:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	65 min
Nov 10, 8:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton	61 min
Nov 10, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike, Warrick	48 min
Nov 10, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh	48 min
Nov 10, 9:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hendricks, Monroe, Morgan	60 min
Nov 10, 9:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	33 min
Nov 10, 9:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Howard, Tipton	45 min
Nov 10, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	44 min
Nov 10, 9:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hamilton, Johnson, Marion	51 min
Nov 10, 9:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	51 min
Nov 10, 9:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown	51 min
Nov 10, 9:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	40 min
Nov 10, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	29 min
Nov 10, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	29 min
Nov 10, 10:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Jackson, Shelby	61 min
Nov 10, 10:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hancock, Madison, Tipton	61 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 448 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Nov 10, 1:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 31 more	6 hr
Nov 10, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 26 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 8:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 10:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Floyd, Jefferson, Scott, Switzerland	5 hr
Nov 10, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 9 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 6:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Fulton	5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1998 Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1998 Tornado Watches in Illinois, 1998 Every tornado 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.