Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT for Peoria County, Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 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 14, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Peoria County, IL, Tazewell County, IL
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 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 7105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 130 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING STRONG LOW PRES SYSTEM OVER NW MO. TRAILING FRONT NOW INTO CENT MO. KLSX 88D INDICATING A NICE FINE LINE OF LOW REF MOVG NE THRU ERN MO. VIS SAT PIX ALSO SHOWING TCU/CBS ALREADY BUILDING ALONG THIS LINE. SPECIAL 18Z ILX SOUNDING SHOWING A MUCH MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE ACROSS CENT IL OVR 12Z WITH LIS ALREADY TO MINUS 5...SRH OF 160 AND HIGH CAPE. SOUNDING IS SHOWING A CAP BUT CAP SHOULD BE BROKEN AS FRNT APPROACHES. 18Z ADAP INDICATING GOOD MOIST CONV ALONG FRNT WITH EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS SE MO FEEDING INTO SYSTEM. SPC JUST CALLED AND WILL BE ISSUE SEVERAL BOXES ACROSS CENT IL. PIA 61/70 +4 SPI 61/71 +4 DEC 61/71 +4 CMI 62/71 +4 LWV 64/73 +4 FRIEDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 92 min |
| Jun 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper, Richland | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 49 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.