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Tornado Watch 551

June 11, 199811 counties in Illinois; 51 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 11, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT for 11 counties in Illinois; 51 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN

Warnings issued inside it

20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTJasper, Newton28 min
Jun 11, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion35 min
Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningINDClinton, Montgomery46 min
Jun 11, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXPulaski, Starke42 min
Jun 11, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTJasper25 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningINDHancock, Marion33 min
Jun 11, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningINDClinton, Tipton33 min
Jun 11, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXPulaski, Starke33 min
Jun 11, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningINDHoward51 min
Jun 11, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXGrant46 min
Jun 11, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Lawrence, Martin49 min
Jun 11, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXKosciusko28 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXElkhart31 min
Jun 11, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningINDMadison36 min
Jun 11, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningINDHendricks, Marion47 min
Jun 11, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXGrant46 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningIWXGrant, Huntington51 min
Jun 11, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningINDHamilton46 min
Jun 11, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningINDHoward30 min
Jun 11, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningINDTipton31 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.1000850700500300200100-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
6598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 43 more7 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1998Tornado Watches in Illinois, 1998Every tornado watch in 1998

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.