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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1998, 7:18 PM CDT for Menard County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 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
- May 12, 1998, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Menard County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1906 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 130018 RRA TORSPI ILC129-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 718 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR MENARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF PETERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... TALL<ULA PETERSBURG ATHENS GREENVIEW 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, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 60 min |
| May 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 53 min |
| May 12, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 64 min |
| May 12, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 118 min |
| May 12, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 53 min |
| May 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason | 62 min |
| May 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 61 min |
| May 12, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason, Menard | 69 min |
| May 12, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 47 min |
| May 12, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 54 min |
| May 12, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 50 min |
| May 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 70 min |
| May 12, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 65 min |
| May 12, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 56 min |
| May 12, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 63 min |
| May 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 52 min |
| May 12, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 65 min |
| May 13, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 55 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.