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Tornado Watch 578

June 14, 199846 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT for 46 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 81 counties

Adams County, IL, Alexander County, IL, Bond County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Greene County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Massac County, IL, Menard County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Union County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Pike County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	35 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, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	36 min
Jun 14, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	44 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, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	30 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, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	34 min
Jun 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	32 min
Jun 14, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	62 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	35 min
Jun 14, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	63 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	51 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Union	25 min
Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Jersey, Macoupin, Madison	61 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	49 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline, Williamson	60 min
Jun 14, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Greene	61 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	32 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	37 min
Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	48 min
Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	46 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Bond, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery	50 min
Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope	51 min
Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	51 min
Jun 14, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union, Webster	63 min
Jun 14, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Bond, Fayette	64 min
Jun 14, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins	59 min
Jun 14, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	62 min
Jun 14, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham	54 min
Jun 14, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	45 min
Jun 14, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	35 min
Jun 14, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon	61 min
Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	48 min
Jun 14, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay	32 min
Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Piatt	49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay and 42 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Logan and 7 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 14, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Calloway, Fulton, Monroe, Simpson	6 hr
Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barry, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Buchanan, Caldwell and 30 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Illinois, 1998 Tornado Watches in Missouri, 1998 Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.