Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1998, 5:46 PM CST for Macoupin County, Madison County, Illinois. It was in force for 59 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
- Mar 27, 1998, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1998, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Carlinville, IL | Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a storage building and blew part of the roof off a barm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 272346 RRA SVRSTL ILC117-119-280045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 546 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MACOUPIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...MADISON COUNTY AT 540 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARROLLTON...TO NEAR THE CITY OF ST LOUIS. THIS LINE OF STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. THE CARLINVILLE AND EDWARDSVILLE AREAS CAN EXPECT WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TRUETT/RP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019- 026-027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-280255- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE ST LOUIS OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THIS INCLUDES PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST...EAST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTIVATION. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019- 026-027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-280255- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE ST LOUIS OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THIS INCLUDES PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST...EAST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTIVATION. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 5:05 PM CST, 41 minutes before
MOZ041-047>051-059-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 505 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE WEATHER HAS PASSED TO THE EAST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING WITH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU COLE...OSAGE...MONTGOMERY...AND GASCONADE COUNTIES. TPS
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 5:05 PM CST, 41 minutes before
MOZ041-047>051-059-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 505 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE WEATHER HAS PASSED TO THE EAST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING WITH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU COLE...OSAGE...MONTGOMERY...AND GASCONADE COUNTIES. TPS
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST, 1 minute before
MOZ036-052-060-062-072-073-084-099-280200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EASTERN MISSOURI... THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE WEATHER HAS PASSED TO THE EAST OF THE REGION...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING WITH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PIKE...LINCOLN...WARREN... FARNKLIN...CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON...IRON...AND REYNOLDS COUNTIES. TPS
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST, 1 minute before
MOZ036-052-060-062-072-073-084-099-280200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1998 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EASTERN MISSOURI... THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SEVERE WEATHER HAS PASSED TO THE EAST OF THE REGION...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING WITH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PIKE...LINCOLN...WARREN... FARNKLIN...CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON...IRON...AND REYNOLDS COUNTIES. TPS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.