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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1988, 7:08 PM CDT for Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1988, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1988, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSPI 230008
TORSPI
ILC173-230045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
708 PM CDT FRI APR 22 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SHELBY
AT 705 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF PANA
ILLINOIS...45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS. THIS
TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
AT 650 PM CDT GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR
RAYMOND ILLINOIS IN NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING.
ATTN ISP DIST...10
HUGHESWhat 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, Apr 22, 6:09 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 605 PM CDT FRI APR 22 1988 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI..PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERNP ILLINOIS. AT 600 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI OR JUST WEST OF QUINCY ILLINOIS AND ANOTHER NEAR SPRINFIELD. SOME OTHERS WERE IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS NEAR CHICAGO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. STUMETZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McDonough | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Moultrie | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lee, Ogle | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 26 min |
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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.