Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1998, 6:26 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1998, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Vermont, IL | A tornado briefly touched down in a field one mile south of Vermont. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| May 12, 7:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Table Grove, IL | Hail caused considerable damage to 3 police cars. The hail smashed the windshields and back windows on all three cars and damaged the light bars on each about one mile west of Ipava. No injuries were reported and damage was estimated around $14,000. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 122326 RRA TORSPI ILC057-130030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 626 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH 2 SEPERATE STORMS. ONE 5 MILES SOUTH OF MACOMB AND ANOTHER 12 MILES SOUTH OF MACOMB...BOTH STORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... VERMONT IPAVA LEWISTOWN CUBA 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. FRIEDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 57 min |
| May 12, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 69 min |
| May 12, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.