Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 701
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 29, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT for 60 counties in Illinois; 7 counties in Indiana; Clinton County, Jackson County, Scott County, Iowa. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Clinton County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Scott County, IA, Adams County, IL, Boone County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McHenry County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN
Warnings issued inside it
43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Warren | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | McDonough | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Stark | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Woodford | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, McLean | 73 min |
| Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 73 min |
| Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 73 min |
| Jun 29, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Putnam | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Piatt | 78 min |
| Jun 29, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Livingston | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 74 min |
| Jun 29, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 74 min |
| Jun 29, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Will | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion, Warren | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Piatt | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Edgar | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Hancock | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 71 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Fremont, Lee, Page and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Illinois, 1998Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1998Tornado Watches in Iowa, 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.