Tornado Warning 107, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jun 29, 1998, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)

Expired

Jun 29, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

69 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County Woodford County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 292136 RRA
TORSPI
ILC203-292245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
436 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOODFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT... LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
  30 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF METAMORA...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND...
  METAMORA
  WASHBURN
  ROANOKE
  EUREKA
  EL PASO

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD
BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER.

GEELHART/AUTEN

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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.