Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Indiana, May 1998
24 tornado warnings in May 1998. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 24
- Busiest day
- May 31, 199811 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 35 min |
| May 3, 5:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LOT | Newton | 31 min |
| May 19, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Starke | 47 min |
| May 19, 6:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain | 32 min |
| May 19, 6:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Vermillion | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke | 45 min |
| May 19, 7:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 47 min |
| May 19, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wabash | 25 min |
| May 23, 8:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 34 min |
| May 31, 11:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 36 min |
| May 31, 12:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 51 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, 1:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| May 31, 2:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 50 min |
| May 31, 3:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 28 min |
| May 31, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Blackford | 35 min |
| May 31, 4:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Jay | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 39 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 49 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allen County4
- Huntington County2
- Wabash County2
- DeKalb County2
- Blackford County2
- Harrison County2
- Newton County1
- Starke County1
- Fountain County1
- Vermillion County1
- Miami County1
- Parke County1
- Daviess County1
- Knox County1
- LaGrange County1
- Steuben County1
- Noble County1
- Grant County1
- Jefferson County1
- Scott County1
- Jay County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.