Tornado, Bond
- When
- June 12, 4:25 PM CST
- Where
- Bond County, Pocahontas to 2 mi SE of Pocahontas
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.800, -89.530
Tornado in Illinois, June 12, 1998
A tornado tracked east across open farmland south of Pocahontas. A storm chaser photographed the tornado which grew to a large wedge shape at its peak.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
A tornado tracked east across open farmland south of Pocahontas. A storm chaser photographed the tornado which grew to a large wedge shape at its peak. However there was little evidence of damage, except for a few trees down in the area.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, June 12, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flood in Iowa, June 12 to 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, June 12, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, June 12, 1998
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 12 to 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, June 12, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 12, 1998
- Flood and Hail in Ohio, June 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 12, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 12, 1998
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1998Warnings in Illinois, June 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5647766.