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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 1998, 10:22 PM CDT for Jasper County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 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
- Apr 7, 1998, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, IL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
757 WFUS1 KSPI 080324 RRA TORSPI ILC079-080415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1022 PM CDT TUE APR 7 1998 * TORNADO WARNING FOR JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WEST LIBERTY * AT 1020 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ENTERING THE COUNTY...LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EFFINGHAM... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. AUTEN/GOETSCH 757 WFUS1 KS@I 080324 TORSPI IlC279-0<045, BULfqur M -T4h8NE.N E5,wgTmZNj*,LHZnN*Z*:4*.NZN -,L(
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 57 min |
| Apr 7, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Woodford | 67 min |
| Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Douglas | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 66 min |
| Apr 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham | 54 min |
| Apr 7, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 52 min |
| Apr 7, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 64 min |
| Apr 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark | 53 min |
| Apr 7, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 57 min |
| Apr 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 51 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.