Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 93, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 7:36 PM CDT for Clay County, Effingham County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IL, Effingham County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Effingham, IL | As a severe thunderstorm moved through Effingham it blew down numerous large tree limbs throughout the town. |
| Jun 14, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Flora, IL | A tornado briefly touched down in a field 4 miles northeast of Flora. 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, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 7105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848 WFUS1 KSPI 150036 RRA TORSPI ILC025-049-150130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 736 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 734 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EFFINGHAM...JUST SOUTH OF I-70...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... ALTAMONT EDGEWOOD LOUISVILLE FLORA THIS STORM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES 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/FRIEDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 92 min |
| Jun 14, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper, Richland | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 49 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.