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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 22, 1998Adams County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1998, 7:35 AM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1998, 7:35 AM CDT (12:35 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1998, 8:10 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Adams County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

695 
WUUS1 KSTL 221234 RRA
SVRSTL
ILC001-221310-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
735 AM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 810 AM CDT

* AT 734 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR QUINCY... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  QUINCY
  CAMP POINT
  PAYSON

THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY
TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS.

TRUETT/METZE

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey64 min
May 22, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun65 min
May 22, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison63 min
May 22, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey33 min
May 22, 2:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams48 min
May 22, 2:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike61 min
May 22, 2:59 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike51 min
May 22, 3:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun, Greene64 min
May 22, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMacoupin65 min
May 22, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey47 min
May 22, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery51 min
May 22, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond48 min
May 22, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette50 min
May 22, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion50 min
May 22, 8:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBrown, Pike50 min
May 22, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene, Macoupin33 min
May 22, 9:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.