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Tornado Warning 119, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 29, 1998Douglas County, Moultrie County, Shelby County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 6:28 PM CDT for Douglas County, Moultrie County, Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 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 29, 1998, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Shelby County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

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 29, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

025 
WFUS1 KSPI 292329 RRA
TORSPI
ILC019-041-139-173-300015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  MOULTRIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 620 PM CDT... LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THIS LINE OF
  SEVERE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES EAST OF RANTOUL...TO
  ARCOLA...TO LOVINGTON...TO SHELBYVILLE. MOVEMENT IS SOUTHEAST AT 50
  MPH.

* THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND...
  SAINT JOSEPH
  SIDNEY
  VILLA GROVE
  NEWMAN
  ALLENVILLE
  SHELBYVILLE
  STEWARDSON

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. THE CHAMPAIGN AIRPORT
HAD A WIND GUST OF 83 MPH AROUND 605 PM.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ACT QUICKLY YOUR LIFE MAY
DEPEND ON IT.

GEELHART/AUTEN


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	62 min
Jun 28, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Mason	62 min
Jun 28, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	57 min
Jun 28, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Scott	65 min
Jun 28, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	69 min
Jun 28, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon	66 min
Jun 28, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	73 min
Jun 28, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	39 min
Jun 28, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	59 min
Jun 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	62 min
Jun 28, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Schuyler	58 min
Jun 28, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason	60 min
Jun 28, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	56 min
Jun 28, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	39 min
Jun 29, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	58 min
Jun 29, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	58 min
Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	69 min
Jun 29, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Schuyler	67 min
Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason, Tazewell	63 min
Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cass	63 min
Jun 29, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	69 min
Jun 29, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall	64 min
Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan, McLean	73 min
Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Menard, Sangamon	73 min
Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	73 min
Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Piatt	78 min
Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	69 min
Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	69 min
Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	36 min
Jun 29, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	74 min
Jun 29, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	74 min
Jun 29, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Piatt	29 min
Jun 29, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign	47 min
Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Effingham, Jasper	75 min
Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Edgar	55 min
Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Vermilion	55 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Schuyler	61 min
Jun 29, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	69 min
Jun 29, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Crawford	69 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.