Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 90, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 5:43 PM CDT for Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 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 14, 1998, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schuyler County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Pleasant View, IL | A tornado briefly touched down in a field two miles southeast of Pleasant View. No injuries or damage were reported. |
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 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WFUS1 KSPI 142245 RRB TORSPI ILC169-142330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 543 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 543 PM CDT STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO IN COOPERSTOWN ON THE BROWN/SCHUYLER COUNTY LINE...4 MILES SOUTH OF RUSHVILLE.... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... RUSHVILLE PLEASANT VIEW FREDERICK BROWNING THIS TORNADO HAS ALREADY CAUSED DAMAGE 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 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Macon, Tazewell | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.