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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1986, 9:05 PM CDT for Douglas County, Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1986, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1986, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 110211 COR TORSPI ILC041-183-045-110330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING.. CORRECTION TO EFFECTIVE TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 905 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...DOUGLAS...VERMILION AND EDGAR AT 9 PM CDT A CONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES AND DISASTER AGENCY NEAR HOMER ILLINOIS AT 858 PM CDT ANOTHER FUNNEL CLOUD ALOFT WAS REPORTED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS NEAR NEWMAN ILLINOIS. THE FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE MOVING EAST. FUNNEL CLOUDSu CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. ATTN ISP DIST...10 HILLIARD
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 435 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1986 .....THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 430PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LA SALLE COUNTY TO ADAMS COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA...20 MILES WEST OF PEORIA IN THE FARMINGTON AREA...ANOTHER 25 SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA FROM CANTON TO TO 5 MILES NORTH OF RUSHVILLE. AT 435 MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT VERMONT IN FULTON CO. AND AT PRINCEVILLE IN NORTHERN PEORIA CO. BY 530 PM THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM AROUND JOLIET TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF PEORIA TO QUINCY ILLINOIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AB?OUT 30 MPH. GEER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 63 min |
| Jul 10, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 63 min |
| Jul 10, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 59 min |
| Jul 10, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Piatt | 21 min |
| Jul 10, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.