Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

May 19, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)

Expired

May 19, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties DeWitt County, IL, Macon County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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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TTAA00 KSPI 200045 RRA
SVRSPI
ILC039-115-200130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  NORTHERN MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS


* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 742PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLINTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND...
  CLINTON
  WAPELLA
  MAROA
  WELDON
  ARGENTA

60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN WAYNESVILLE.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LA8RGE HAIL. MOVE TO A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES AT ANY TIME.

KETCHAM


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NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 19, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 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.