Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 76, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 4:08 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1998, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 142108 RRA TORSTL ILC001-142140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 408 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 440 PM CDT * AT AT 404 PM... SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 1 MILE SOUTH OF QUINCY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... BURTON PAYSON ADAMS LIBERTY KELLERVILLE A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! IN YOU ARE IN THE PATH...MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE NOW FOR PROTECTION. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST SHELTER. YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND YOU MAY DEPEND ON YOUR ACBTIONS. AMS/DF &
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, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Pike | 65 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, 4:19 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.