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Tornado Warning 74, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 14, 1998Calhoun County, Pike County, Illinois; Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 3:35 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Pike County, Illinois; Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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: Jun 14, 1998, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, IL, Pike County, IL, Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Belleview, 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 14, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 142035 RRA
TORSTL
ILC013-149-MOC163-142140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
335 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  EXTREME EASTERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 440 PM CDT

* AT AT 333 PM... SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES
  WEST OF CLARKSVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  CLARKSVILLE
  PLEASANT HILL
  BELLEVIEW
  PEARL

TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI WITH
THIS STORM

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 STRUCTURpE. AS A LAST RESORT...
MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

AMS/DF


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	31 min
Jun 14, 7:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Jersey	32 min
Jun 14, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	47 min
Jun 14, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Macoupin	34 min
Jun 14, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond, Clinton	66 min
Jun 14, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	66 min
Jun 14, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	45 min
Jun 14, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion, Washington	48 min
Jun 14, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	52 min
Jun 14, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph	61 min
Jun 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams	32 min
Jun 14, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Randolph	61 min
Jun 14, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Greene	61 min
Jun 14, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	62 min
Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Jersey, Macoupin, Madison	61 min
Jun 14, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Greene	61 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Bond, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery	50 min
Jun 14, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	32 min
Jun 14, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	49 min
Jun 14, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	31 min
Jun 14, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Warren	48 min
Jun 14, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Audrain	15 min
Jun 14, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox	32 min
Jun 14, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	36 min
Jun 14, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	46 min
Jun 14, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Scotland	33 min
Jun 14, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Clark, Scotland	38 min
Jun 14, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	35 min
Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Clark	46 min
Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lewis	50 min
Jun 14, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Clark	31 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.