Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 91, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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 29, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 29, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Ramsey, IL | |
| Jun 29, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Farina, 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 29, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 2291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 122 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 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 300014 RRA TORSTL ILC051-300045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 713 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT... SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR ST PETER... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... FARINA 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 ACTIONS. RP &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.