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Tornado Warning 92, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:42 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 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, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Marbletown, IL | Storm chasers witnessed a tornado briefly touch down in field 3 miles northeast of Marbletown. 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
512 WFUS1 KSPI 142343 RRA TORSPI ILC057-150030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 642 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... CUBA SAINT DAVID CANTON FAIRVIEW 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. GEELHART/FRIEDERS
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, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 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.