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Tornado Warning 83, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 14, 19984 counties in Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 14, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bond County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Montgomery County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	New Douglas, IL
Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Sorento, IL
Jun 14, 6:48 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Old Ripley, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

396 
WFUS1 KSTL 142314 RRA
TORSTL
ILC005-117-119-135-150005-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BOND COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  SOUTHEASTERN MACOUPIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 705 PM CDT

* AT 614 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR STAUTON... MOVING EAST AT 25.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  STAUTON
  WILLIAMSON
  NEW DOUGLAS
  SOLENTO
  WALSHVILLE
  PANAMA
  RENO
  COFFEEN LAKE

SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN THE STAUTON AREA.

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.

DLF/TRUETT


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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, 3:35 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, 4:08 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

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.