Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1998, 6:53 PM CDT for Clinton County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 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
- May 23, 1998, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Trenton, IL | |
| May 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Breese, IL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
060 WUUS1 KSTL 232354 RRA SVRSTL ILC027-240040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 653 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 740 PM CDT * AT 654 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TRENTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... ST ROSE CARLYLE BOULDER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. FG/GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 30 min |
| May 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 51 min |
| May 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison | 49 min |
| May 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey | 49 min |
| May 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 33 min |
| May 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Greene | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.