Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 45, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1998, 2:59 AM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 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
- May 22, 1998, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 3:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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 22, 3:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Pittsfield, 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 22, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
264 WFUS1 KSTL 220800 RRA TORSTL ILC149-220850- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 259 AM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 350 AM CDT * AT 258 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR BARRY... MOVING SOUTHEAST 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... PITTSFIELD NEW HARTFORD DOPPLER RADAR IS SHOWING A STRONG TORNADO SIGNAL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH MOVE TO A SHELTER NOW A BASEMENT IS BEST...BUT IF NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AND HIDE IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND CARS IN FAVOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. DM/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 64 min |
| May 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 65 min |
| May 22, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 63 min |
| May 22, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 33 min |
| May 22, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 48 min |
| May 22, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 61 min |
| May 22, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 64 min |
| May 22, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 65 min |
| May 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond | 48 min |
| May 22, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 50 min |
| May 22, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 50 min |
| May 22, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 35 min |
| May 22, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Macoupin | 33 min |
| May 22, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 48 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.