Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT for Brown County, Illinois. It was in force for 65 min. 3 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 12, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Versailles, IL | |
| May 12, 6:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Hersman, IL | |
| May 12, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Hersman, 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 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711 WUUS1 KSTL 122219 RRA SVRSTL ILC009-122325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 520 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 625 PM CDT * AT 517 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF KELLERVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... BUCKHORN HEARSMAN MT STERLING 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/DLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 34 min |
| May 12, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 62 min |
| May 12, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Brown | 63 min |
| May 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Brown | 60 min |
| May 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 37 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.