Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1998, 6:45 PM CST for Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 27, 1998, 6:45 PM CST (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1998, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
631 WFUS1 KSPI 280046 RRA TORSPI ILC167-280115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 645 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 * TORNADO WARNING FOR SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SPRINGFIELD ROCHESTER * AT 643 PM CST SANGAMON COUNTY ESDA REPORTED A TORNADO BETWEEN NEW BERLIN AND CHATHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. FRIEDERS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 28 min |
| Mar 27, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Menard, Sangamon | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Tazewell | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Shelby | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 57 min |
| Mar 28, 5:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 36 min |
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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.