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Tornado Warning 83, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT for Moultrie County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moultrie County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirksville, IL | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees 2.5 miles south of Kirksville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
042 WFUS1 KSPI 122218 RRA TORSPI ILC139-122245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 517 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR MOULTRIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 515 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SULLIVAN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... BRUCE GAYS ALLENVILLE 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. TF/BK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, McLean, Menard | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 39 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.