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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1998, 4:49 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1998, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Champaign County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 6598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WUUS1 KSPI 112150 RRA SVRSPI ILC019-112245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 449 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 448 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF FARMER CITY TO MONTICELLO TO CERRO GORDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... MAHOMET LAKE OF THE WOODS CHAMPAIGN/URBANA RANTOUL THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES AT ANY TIME. BYRD/KETCHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 43 min |
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.