Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

May 19, 1998, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)

Expired

May 19, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Marshall County, IL, Stark County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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SVRSPI
ILC123-175-192345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
555 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  STARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS


* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HENNEPIN OR 12 MILES NORTH OF
  LACON TO TOULON....MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. .

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND...
  TOULON
  WYOMING
  BRADFORD
  HENRY
  LACON



LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GET INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


KETCHAM

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 19, 1:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
157 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

WELL...SPC HAS ISSUED A WATCH FOR NRN PTNS OF THE CWA...SO LET THE
GAMES BEGIN HERE IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

DID A SPECIAL 18Z LAUNCH TODAY...UNMODIFIED SOUNDING HAD CAPES NEAR
4000...WITH LITTLE OR NO CAP LEFT. SO WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR THINGS TO
EXPLODE. SINCE THIS WILL BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN...JUST EXPECT ACTIVITY
THIS EVENING AND THEN QUITE FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. LOW TEMPS
TONIGHT IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 60S STILL LOOKS GOOD.

FOR TOMORROW...MORE OF THE SAME WITH PARTLY SUNNY SKIES AND TEMPS A
LITTLE COOLER THAN TODAY/S...WHICH CURRENT FORECAST HANDLES WELL.

PIA   63/85  +2
SPI   65/87  42
DEC   64/87  42
CMI   64/87  42
LWV   65/87  42

BYRD

In the hours before

ILZ027>031-036>038-200000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
356 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT...

AS OF 350 PM CDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL
ILLINOIS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SO KEEP ALERT TO THE CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...CABLE OR
COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

BYRD

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061-192340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
536 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 368 HAS BEEN REISSUED AS
NUMBER 371...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS REISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR MOST OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS.  THIS NEW WATCH 371 REPLACES THE
WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM.  THE NEW WATCH IS IN EFFECT TILL
MIDNIGHT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS WATCH ALSO EXTENDS
FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE ORIGINAL WATCH.

KETCHAM

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.