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Tornado Warning 59, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 5:09 PM CDT for Bond County, Madison County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min. 8 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bond County, IL, Madison County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Williamson, IL | |
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pocahontas, IL | |
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Livingston, IL | |
| Jun 12, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mulberry Grove, IL | |
| Jun 12, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Smithboro, IL | |
| Jun 12, 6:01 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Edwardsville, IL | |
| Jun 12, 6:03 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Edwardsville, IL | |
| Jun 12, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Troy, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 122209 RRA TORSTL ILC005-119-122255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 509 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOND COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 508 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF STAUTON... MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... STAUTON LIVINGSTON WILLIAMSON NEW DOUGLAS RENO WOBURN GREENVILLE THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! IF IN THE PATH...TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. IF NOT...STAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL AND GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILESHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A STRONG STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT... MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. METZE/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette, Marion | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe, Randolph | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion | 34 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.