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Tornado Warning 97, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 8:28 PM CDT for Clay County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 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, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.
128 WFUS1 KSPI 150128 RRA TORSPI ILC025-150200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 828 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS AROUND... LOUISVILLE CLAY CITY SAILOR SPRINGS 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, 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, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 54 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, 8:33 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.