Tornado, Montgomery
- When
- May 12, 9:16 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County, 5 mi W of Witt
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -89.450
Tornado in Illinois, May 12, 1998
A storm spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown west of Witt. There was no damage.
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 storm spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown west of Witt. There was no damage.
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:16 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 Heavy Snow in California, May 12 to 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, May 12, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 12, 1998
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, May 12 to 13, 1998
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Michigan, May 12 to 13, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 12, 1998
- Hail in Illinois, May 12, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 12, 1998
- Coastal Flood in New Jersey, May 12 to 13, 1998
- Coastal Flood in Pennsylvania, May 12 to 13, 1998
- Hail in Illinois, May 12, 1998
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1998Warnings in Illinois, May 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: 5648448.