Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 84, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 7:01 PM CDT for Bond County, Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 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, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bond County, IL, Fayette County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 7:19 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Vandalia, IL | |
| Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Smithboro, IL | |
| Jun 14, 7:34 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Vandalia, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 7105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
613 WFUS1 KSTL 150000 RRA TORSTL ILC005-051-150105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 701 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOND COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 805 PM CDT * AT 700 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR GREENVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... AREAS IN BOND COUNTY ALONG INTERSTATE 70 GREENVILLE GOVERNOR BOND LAKE RECREATIONAL AREA MULBERRY GROVE VANDALIA THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN WESTERN SECTIONS OF BOND COUNTY. 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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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.